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Novel molecular variants of allele I of the Escherichia coli P fimbrial adhesin gene papG.
Infection and immunity - 1 Apr 2001
Johnson J R, Stell A L, Kaster N, Fasching C, O'Bryan T T
Abstract excerpt
P fimbriae of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli mediate digalactoside-specific adherence via the tip adhesin molecule PapG, which occurs in three known variants (I to III), which are encoded by the corresponding three alleles of papG. In the present study, newly discovered variants of papG allele I and the respective wild-type source strains were characterized. One of the new papG allele I variants...
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