Campylobacter lari: Molecular and comparative analyses of the virulence-associated chromosome locus J (vacJ) gene homologue, including the promoter region

British Journal of Biomedical Science

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-92

  Takaku, C ^a   Sekizuka, T ^a   Tazumi, A ^a   Moore, J E ^b   Millar, B C ^b   Matsuda, Motoo ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Campylobacter lari; Nucleotides; vacJ gene

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN VACJ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI; CAMPYLOBACTER UPSALIENSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER LARI; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 69249196575     PISSN: 09674845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09674845.2009.11730250     Document Type: Article

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