Characterization of the prfA virulence gene cluster insertion site in non-hemolytic Listeria spp.: Probing the evolution of the Listeria virulence gene island

Current Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 271-277

  Cai, Steven ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; LISTERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSE-PHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA IVANOVII; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA WELSHIMERI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034862977     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002840010300     Document Type: Article

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