Transposition of the heat-stable toxin astA gene into a Gifsy-2-related prophage of Salmonella enterica serovar abortusovis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4568-4574

  Bacciu, Donatella ^a   Falchi, Giovanni ^a   Spazziani, Alessandra ^a   Bossi, Lionello ^c   Marogna, Gavino ^b   Leori, Guido Sisinnio ^b   Rubino, Salvatore ^a   Uzzau, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; PROTEIN GTGB; PROTEIN SRFH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GIFSY 1 GENE; GIFSY 2 GENE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; INTESTINES; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SHEEP DISEASES; SPLEEN; VIRAL TAIL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PHAGE GIFSY-2; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 3042856560     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.14.4568-4574.2004     Document Type: Article

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