Spontaneous deletion of a 209-kilobase-pair fragment from the Escherichia coli genome occurs with acquisition of resistance to an assortment of infectious phages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4256-4263

  Tanji, Yasunori ^a   Hattori, Kenji ^a   Suzuki, Kohichi ^a   Miyanaga, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMOSTATS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS; SEWAGE; STRAIN;

AMERICAN SOCIETY; BACTERIAL STRAINS; COMPLEMENTATION; CONTINUOUS CULTURES; CULTURES (TRADITIONAL); GENETIC ANALYSES; GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE (LPS); MULTIPLE MUTATIONS; OUTER MEMBRANES; PARENT STRAIN; PROTEIN PRODUCTIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

HEALTH;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RHAMNOSYL TRANSFERASE;

CHEMOSTAT; CHROMOSOME; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MUTATION; PLASMID; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; SEWAGE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOSTAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEWAGE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLIPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLAQUE ASSAY; PLASMIDS; PORINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 47749096050     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00243-08     Document Type: Article

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