Neurotoxin gene clusters in Clostridium botulinum type A strains: Sequence comparison and evolutionary implications

Current Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 345-352

  Dineen, Sean S ^a   Bradshaw, Marite ^a   Johnson, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; HEMAGGLUTININ; NEUROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BONT A GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

BOTULINUM TOXINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEMAGGLUTININS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROTOXINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0038050739     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3851-1     Document Type: Article

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