Sequencing and analysis of the large virulence plasmid pLVPK of Klebsiella pneumoniae CG43

Gene

Volumn 337, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 189-198

  Chen, Ying Tsong ^a   Chang, Hwan You ^b   Lai, Yi Chyi ^b   Pan, Chao Chi ^b   Tsai, Shih Feng ^c,d   Peng, Hwei Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

base pair(s); bp; Heavy metal resistance; insertion sequence(s); IS; Iteron; kb; kilobase(s); LB; Luria Bertani (medium); open reading frame; ORF; ori; origin of DNA replication; rmpA; Siderophore; Tellurite resistance

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER; LEAD; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN PLVPK; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IRON TRANSPORT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METALS, HEAVY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LURIA; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 3242771398     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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