The gene encoding pyolysin, the pore-forming toxin of Arcanobacterium pyogenes, resides within a genomic islet flanked by essential genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-247

  Rudnick, Stefani T ^a   Jost, B Helen ^a   Songer, J Glenn ^a   Billington, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol dependent cytolysin; Pathogenesis; Pathogenicity island; Pyolysin; Signal recognition particle; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; PYOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FFH PROTEIN, E COLI; HEMOLYSIN; PYOLYSIN, ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ARCANOBACTERIUM; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL VIABILITY; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HEMOLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY;

ARCANOBACTERIUM; ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

EID: 1642410344     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00527-5     Document Type: Article

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