Spontaneous excision of the O-polysaccharide wbkA glycosyltranferase gene is a cause of dissociation of smooth to rough Brucella colonies

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1860-1867

  Mancilla, Marcos ^a   Marín, Clara M ^c   Blasco, José M ^c   Zárraga, Ana María ^b   López Goñi, Ignacio ^a   Moriyón, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84861206953     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06561-11     Document Type: Article

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