Superantigen-like gene(s) in human pathogenic Streptococcus dysgalactiae, subsp. equisimilis: Genomic localisation of the gene encoding streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin G (speGdys)

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 159-167

  Sachse, Svea ^a   Seidel, Peter ^a   Gerlach, Dieter ^a   Günther, Elisabeth ^a   Rödel, Jürgen ^a   Straube, Eberhard ^a   Schmidt, Karl Hermann ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene transfer; Genomic organisation; Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin G; Streptococcus; Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; STREPTOCOCCAL PYROGENIC EXOTOXIN G; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SCREENING; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; WOUND INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EXOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 0037063971     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(02)00373-5     Document Type: Article

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