Characterization of a β-glucoside operon (bgc) prevalent in septicemic and uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2284-2293

  Neelakanta, Girish ^b   Sankar, T Sabari ^a   Schnetz, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUTIN; BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; CELLOBIOSE; E. COLI; ENTEROBACTER; GLUCOSIDASE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFERS; KLEBSIELLA; LOW TEMPERATURES; PHOSPHO TRANSFERS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PATHOGENS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

STRAIN;

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; BETA GLUCOSIDE; CELLOBIOSE; CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOSIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; DIVERGENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA ALBERTII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEPTICEMIA; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARBUTIN; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; CELLOBIOSE; CITROBACTER; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KLEBSIELLA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

CITROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA ALBERTII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 64749108115     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02621-08     Document Type: Article

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