Genomic sequence and characterization of the virulent bacteriophage φCTP1 from Clostridium tyrobutyricum and heterologous expression of its endolysin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 5415-5422

  Mayer, Melinda J ^a   Payne, John ^a   Gasson, Michael J ^a   Narbad, Arjan ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS; CELL WALL DEGRADATION; CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; E. COLI; GENE CODING; GENOMIC SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LYTIC ENZYMES; MICROFLORA; OPEN READING FRAME; PURIFIED PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TERMINAL PORTIONS; VIABLE COUNT;

CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

ENDOLYSIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GROWTH RATE; LYSIS; MILK; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ORDER; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VIRION;

CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 77955971676     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00989-10     Document Type: Article

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