Amino acid alterations in Gp38 of host range mutants of PP01 and evidence for their infection of an ompC null mutant of Escherichia coli O157:H7

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 243-248

  Morita, Masatomo ^a   Fischer, Curt R ^a   Mizoguchi, Katsunori ^a   Yoichi, Masatoshi ^a   Oda, Masahito ^a   Tanji, Yasunori ^a   Unno, Hajime ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli O157:H7; Host range mutant; Receptor; Resistant cell; Virulent bacteriophage

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; PROTEIN GP38; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PORINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037027533     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01025-X     Document Type: Article

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