Pathogenicity island integrase cross-talk: A potential new tool for virulence modulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 555-559

  Manson, Janet M ^a,b   Gilmore, Michael S ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TYROSINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL SURFACE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION; GENE DELETION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROBIOLOGY; MODULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; LIFE STYLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33748309128     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05262.x     Document Type: Review

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