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Molecular population genetic evidence of horizontal spread of two alleles of the pyrogenic exotoxin C gene (speC) among pathogenic clones of Streptococcus pyogenes.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 1992
Kapur V, Nelson K, Schlievert P M, Selander R K, Musser J M
Abstract excerpt
It has recently been demonstrated that the bacteriophage-borne gene (speC) encoding pyrogenic exotoxin C is harbored by phylogenetic lineages representing virtually the entire breadth of genomic differentiation present in the species Streptococcus pyogenes (J. M. Musser, A. R. Hauser, M. H. Kim, P. M. Schlievert, K. Nelson, and R. K. Selander, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:2668-2672, 1991). To determine whether...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Exotoxins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Transfection