Molecular characterization of the genes involved in O-antigen modification, attachment, integration and excision in Shigella flexneri bacteriophage SfV

Gene

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-227

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

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Pathol Infect Dis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attachment site; Bacteriophage SfV; Excision; Glucosyl transferase gene; Integration; Shigella flexneri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRUS ADSORPTION; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS EXCRETION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOPHAGE P22; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, VIRAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRASES; LYSOGENY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; O ANTIGENS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI BACTERIOPHAGE V;

EID: 0343247783     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00143-1     Document Type: Article

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