Prophage-stimulated toxin production in Clostridium difficile NAP1/027 lysogens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2726-2734

  Sekulovic, Ognjen ^a   Meessen Pinard, Mathieu ^a   Fortier, Louis Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; LYSOGEN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHI CD38 2 VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPERNATANT; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROTOXINS; EUROPE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROPHAGES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 79958160416     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00787-10     Document Type: Article

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