Genetic structure of the nadA and nadB antivirulence loci in Shigella spp.

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 6482-6486

  Prunier, Anne Laure ^a   Schuch, Raymond ^a,b   Fernández, Reinaldo E ^a   Maurelli, Anthony T ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROINVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; NADA GENE; NADB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

EID: 34548514828     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00525-07     Document Type: Article

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