matB, a common fimbrillin gene of Escherichia coli, expressed in a genetically conserved, virulent clonal group

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 16, 2001, Pages 4727-4736

  Pouttu, R ^a   Westerlund Wikstrom B ^a   Lang H ^a   Alsti, K ^a   Virkola, R ^a   Saarela, U ^a   Siitonen, A ^a   Kalkkinen, N ^a   Korhonen, T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CROSS REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEPTICEMIA; THERMOREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PILI, SEX; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034896908     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.16.4727-4736.2001     Document Type: Article

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