[The significance of pesticin 1 for the virulence and immunogenicity of Yersinia pestis].

Article

[The significance of pesticin 1 for the virulence and immunogenicity of Yersinia pestis].

Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jul 1991

Grebtsova N N, Cherniavskaia A S, Lebedeva S A

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The work deals with the study of the virulent and immunogenic properties of Y. pestis strains which lost their capacity for producing pesticine 1 as the result of the insertion of a Tn-like element into the 6-MD plasmid responsible for this property. The "switching-off" of gene pst induced a decr...

Topics

Animals
Bacteriocins
DNA Transposable Elements
Genes, Bacterial
Genetic Markers
Genetic Variation
Guinea Pigs
Immunization
Mice
Plasmids
Virulence
Yersinia pestis

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