Genetic organization of pre-CTX and CTX prophages in the genome of an environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strain

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3633-3641

  Maiti, Diganta ^a   Das, Bhabatosh ^a   Saha, Arjun ^a,d   Nandy, Ranjan K ^b   Nair, G Balakrish ^c   Bhadra, Rupak K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTXAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTX PHI PROPHAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INOVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROPHAGES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33845972970     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/000117-0     Document Type: Article

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