Excision of the Shigella resistance locus pathogenicity island in Shigella flexneri is stimulated by a member of a new subgroup of recombination directionality factors

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 5551-5554

  Luck, Shelley N ^a   Turner, Sally A ^a   Rajakumar, Kumar ^a   Adler, Ben ^a   Sakellaris, Harry ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ROX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 3843070894     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.16.5551-5554.2004     Document Type: Article

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