Nucleotide sequence analysis of the enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Ent plasmid

DNA Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 299-309

  Ochi, Sadayuki ^a   Shimizu, Tohru ^b   Ohtani, Kaori ^b   Ichinose, Yoshio ^c   Arimitsu, Hideyuki ^a   Tsukamoto, Kentaro ^a   Kato, Michio ^a   Tsuji, Takao ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Enterotoxin gene; Pathogenicity islet; Virulence plasmid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN REPA; PROTEIN REPA1; PROTEIN REPA2; PROTEIN REPA3; PROTEIN REPA4; PROTEIN TRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 74949113317     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsp015     Document Type: Article

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