Identification and characterization of a hemolysin gene cluster in Vibrio anguillarum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2777-2786

  Rock, Jessica L ^a,b   Nelson, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; LACTONIZING LIPASE LLPA; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE PLP; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMOLYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; LLPA GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLP GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE OF CONGENITAL DEFECTS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VAH1 GENE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMON; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33646358207     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.5.2777-2786.2006     Document Type: Article

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