cse, a chimeric and variable gene, encodes an extracellular protein involved in cellular segregation in Streptococcus thermophilus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2737-2746

  Borges, Frédéric ^a   Layec, Séverine ^a   Thibessard, Annabelle ^a   Fernandez, Annabelle ^a   Gintz, Brigitte ^a   Hols, Pascal ^b   Decaris, Bernard ^a   Leblond Bourget, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PCSB; SURFACE IMMUNOGENIC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SEGREGATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CSE GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 16844371917     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.8.2737-2746.2005     Document Type: Article

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