CadC is the preferential target of a convergent evolution driving enteroinvasive Escherichia coli toward a lysine decarboxylase-defective phenotype

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5472-5479

  Casalino, Mariassunta ^a   Latella, Maria Carmela ^b   Prosseda, Gianni ^b   Colonna, Bianca ^b,c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Dipto di Biol Cell/dello Sviluppo   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN CADC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CADBA GENE; DECARBOXYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXY-LYASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0141781020     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.10.5472-5479.2003     Document Type: Article

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