Detection of conjugation related type four secretion machinery in Aeromonas culicicola

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Rangrez, Ashraf Yusuf ^a   Dayananda, Kannayakanahalli Maheshwarappa ^a   Atanur, Santosh ^b   Joshi, Rajendra ^b   Patole, Millind S ^a   Shouche, Yogesh S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CELL SCIENCE   (India)

^b Centre for Development of Advanced Computing   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS CULICICOLA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AEROMONAS CULICICOLA; AEROMONAS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NUCLEOSIDE-TRIPHOSPHATASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45749103439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000115     Document Type: Article

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