The superantigen gene ypm is located in an unstable chromosomal locus of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 4489-4499

  Carnoy, Christophe ^a   Floquet, Stephanie ^a   Marceau, Michael ^a   Sebbane, Florent ^a   Haentjens Herwegh, Stephanie ^a   Devalckenaere, Annie ^a   Simonet, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN YPM; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUPERANTIGENS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0036330794     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.16.4489-4499.2002     Document Type: Article

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