Acquisition of stcE, a C1 esterase inhibitor-specific metalloprotease, during the evolution of Escherichia coli O157:H7

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1907-1914

  Lathem, Wyndham W ^a   Bergsbaken, Tessa ^a   Witowski, Sarah E ^a   Perna, Nicole T ^a   Welch, Rodney A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Dept of Med Microbiol/Immunology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S INHIBITOR; HEMOLYSIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEROXIDASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DIARRHEA; ENTEROPATHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HYBRIDIZATION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SECRETION; SEROTYPE;

COMPLEMENT C1 INACTIVATOR PROTEINS; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0038577096     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374719     Document Type: Article

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