Mutually exclusive distribution of IS1548 and GBSi1, an active group II intron identified in human isolates of group B streptococci

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2560-2569

  Granlund, M ^a   Michel, F ^a   Norgren, M ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; LAMININ BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, CATALYTIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALCALIGENES; BACILLUS HALODURANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 0035094207     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.8.2560-2569.2001     Document Type: Article

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