A chromosomally located traHIJKCLMN operon encoding a putative type IV secretion system is involved in the virulence of Yersinia ruckeri

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 937-945

  Mendez J ^a   Fernandez L ^a   Menendez A ^a   Reimundo, P ^a   Perez Pascual D ^a   Navais, R ^a   Guijarro, J A ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO INFECTIONS; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GENOMIC ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATIONS; IN-VIVO; INSERTION SITES; LETHAL DOSE; LIMITING CONDITIONS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARENTAL STRAINS; PCR DETECTIONS; PLASMID PROFILES; POLAR EFFECTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; SECRETION SYSTEMS; SERRATIA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL FUSIONS; YERSINIAE;

COSMIC RAYS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; STRAIN;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION; SECRETION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; LETHAL DOSE 50; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OPERON; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SERRATIA ENTOMOPHILA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA RUCKERI;

EID: 59949090939     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01377-08     Document Type: Article

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