Urease activity of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli depends on a specific one-base substitution in ureD

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3483-3489

  Nakano, Masayuki ^a   Iida, Tetsuya ^a   Honda, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; UREASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; POINT MUTATION; UREASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 6444241898     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27280-0     Document Type: Article

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