O-acetyltransferase gene neuO is segregated according to phylogenetic background and contributes to environmental desiccation resistance in Escherichia coli K1

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3154-3165

  Mordhorst, Ines L ^a   Claus, Heike ^a   Ewers, Christa ^b   Lappann, Martin ^a   Schoen, Christoph ^a   Elias, Johannes ^a   Batzilla, Julia ^a,d   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a   Wieler, Lothar H ^b   Bergfeld, Anne K ^c   Mühlenhoff, Martina ^c   Vogel, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; NEUO PROTEIN, E COLI;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 71249107921     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02019.x     Document Type: Article

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