Genetic and functional properties of the self-transmissible Yersinia enterocolitica plasmid pYE854, which mobilizes the virulence plasmid pYV

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 991-1010

  Hammerl, Jens A ^a,c   Klein, Iris ^b   Lanka, Erich ^c   Appel, Bernd ^a   Hertwig, Stefan ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRULENCE PLASMID; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

POSIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 38649136936     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01467-07     Document Type: Article

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