Plasmid-mediated genomic recombination at the pilin gene locus enhances the N-acethyl-D-galactosamine-specific haemagglutination activity and the growth rate of Eikenella corrodens

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 815-821

  Azakami, Hiroyuki ^a   Akimichi, Hiromi ^a   Noiri, Yuichiro ^b   Ebisu, Shigeyuki ^b   Kato, Akio ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; PILIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; ANIMALS; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTINATION; PLASMIDS; RABBITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EIKENELLA CORRODENS;

EID: 33344466782     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28490-0     Document Type: Article

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