A siderophore biosynthesis gene cluster from the fish pathogen Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida is structurally and functionally related to the Yersinia high-pathogenicity island

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3327-3341

  Osorio, Carlos R ^a   Juiz Río, Sandra ^a   Lemos, Manuel L ^a  

^a Santiago de Compostela Spain   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; SIDEROPHORE; YERSINIABACTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FISH DISEASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE PISCICIDA; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; BENZETHONIUM; EVOLUTION; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHOTOBACTERIUM; POINT MUTATION; SIDEROPHORES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA;

PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE SUBSP. PISCICIDA; PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIONACEAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 33750940758     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29190-0     Document Type: Article

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