Vibrio vulnificus rtxA1 gene recombination generates toxin variants with altered potency during intestinal infection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1645-1650

  Kwak, Jayme S ^a   Jeong, Hee Gon ^a   Satchell, Karla J F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Oyster; Phylogeny; RTX

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; PROTEIN RTXA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTESTINE INFECTION; LD 50; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OYSTER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIBRIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OSTREIDAE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MUS; OSTREIDAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 79952146186     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014339108     Document Type: Article

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