Analyses of the cag pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-53

  Akopyants, Natalia S ^a   Clifton, Sandra W ^b   Kersulyte, Dangeruta ^a   Crabtree, Jean E ^c   Youree, Bryan E ^b   Reece, C Adonis ^b   Bukanov, Nick O ^a,e   Drazek, E Susan ^d   Roe, Bruce A ^b   Berg, Douglas E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INTERLEUKIN-8; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; EUKARYOTA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; PICA; PROKARYOTA; VIR;

EID: 14444281381     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00770.x     Document Type: Article

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