Horizontal gene transfer and host specificity of beta-haemolytic streptococci: The role of a putative composite transposon containing scpB and lmb

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 925-935

  Franken, C ^a   Haase, G ^a   Brandt, C ^a   Weber Heynemann, J ^a   Martin, S ^a   Lammler C ^b   Podbielski, A ^c   Lutticken R ^a   Spellerberg, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN LMB; PROTEIN SCPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSON;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0035725159     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02563.x     Document Type: Article

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