Genomic comparison of the O-antigen biosynthesis gene clusters of Escherichia coli O55 strains belonging to three distinct lineages

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 559-570

  Iguchi, Atsushi ^a   Ooka, Tadasuke ^a   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^a   Asadulghani, ^a   Nakayama, Keisuke ^a   Frankel, Gad ^b   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; O ANTIGEN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 39749201701     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/013334-0     Document Type: Article

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