Shigella flexneri type-specific antigen V: Cloning, sequencing and characterization of the glucosyl transferase gene of temperate bacteriophage SfV

Gene

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-216

  Huan, Pham Thi ^a,b   Whittle, Belinda L ^a   Bastin, David A ^a   Lindberg, Alf A ^b   Verma, Naresh K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Pathol Infect Dis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage SfV; Glucosyl transferase gene; Phage conversion; Shigella flexneri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0342813114     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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