Horizontal transfer of the immunoglobulin A1 protease gene (iga) from Streptococcus to Gemella haemolysans

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2171-2180

  Takenouchi Ohkubu, Nobuko ^a,b   Mortensen, Lotte M ^a   Drasbek, Kim R ^a   Kilian, Mogens ^a   Poulsen, Knud ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; METALLOPROTEINASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PROTEINASE; ZINC;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEMELLA HAEMOLYSANS; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STAPHYLOCOCCACEAE; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEMELLA HAEMOLYSANS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

EID: 33746033795     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28801-0     Document Type: Article

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