The Pasteurella multocida toxin is encoded within a lysogenic bacteriophage

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 255-269

  Pullinger, Gillian D ^a   Bevir, Thomas ^a   Lax, Alistair J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; MITOMYCIN C; TRANSFER RNA;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PASTEURELLA; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PROPHAGES; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0348225063     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03829.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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