Type II heat-labile enterotoxins from 50 diverse Escherichia coli isolates belong almost exclusively to the LT-IIc family and may be prophage encoded

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jobling, Michael G ^a   Holmes, Randall K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; TYPE 2 HEAT LABILE ENTEROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HEAT LABILE ENTEROTOXIN, E COLI; HEAT-LABILE ENTEROTOXIN, E COLI; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TYPE II ENTEROTOXIN A1 GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPHAGES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84855379238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029898     Document Type: Article

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