Sequencing and diversity analyses reveal extensive similarities between some epsilon-toxin-encoding plasmids and the pCPF5603 Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin plasmid

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7178-7188

  Miyamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Li, Jihong ^b   Sayeed, Sameera ^b,c   Akimoto, Shigeru ^a   McClane, Bruce A ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BETA 2 TOXIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; COLLAGEN; ENTEROTOXIN; EPSILON TOXIN; SORTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE B; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TYPE D; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPSILON TOXIN GENE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 55749100871     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00939-08     Document Type: Article

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