Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli virulence-plasmid-carried apyrase (apy) and ospB genes are organized as a bicistronic operon and are subject to differential expression

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2519-2529

  Santapaola, Daniela ^a   Casalino, Mariassunta ^a   Petrucca, Andrea ^a   Presutti, Carlo ^a   Zagaglia, Carlo ^a   Berlutti, Francesca ^a   Colonna, Bianca ^a   Nicoletti, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATP diphosphohydrolase; mRNA processing; Polycistronic mRNA

Indexed keywords

APYRASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE PAIRING; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

APYRASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036667439     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-8-2519     Document Type: Article

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