Plasmids derived from lambdoid bacteriophages as models for studying replication of mobile genetic elements responsible for the production of shiga toxins by pathogenic escherichia coli strains

Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 211-220

  Nejman, Boena ^a   Łoś, Joanna M ^a   Łoś, Marcin ^a,b   Wgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a   Wgrzyn, Alicja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage derived plasmids; DNA replication; Escherichia coli; Lambdoid bacteriophages; Shiga toxin converting bacteriophages; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPLICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLIPHAGES; DNA REPLICATION; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; SHIGA TOXINS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70349594185     PISSN: 14641801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000242447     Document Type: Article

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