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A unique arabinose 5-phosphate isomerase found within a genomic island associated with the uropathogenicity of Escherichia coli CFT073.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 2011
Mosberg Joshua A, Yep Alejandra, Meredith Timothy C, Smith Sara, Wang Pan-Fen, Holler Tod P, Mobley Harry L T, Woodard Ronald W
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies showed that deletion of genes c3405 to c3410 from PAI-metV, a genomic island from Escherichia coli CFT073, results in a strain that fails to compete with wild-type CFT073 after a transurethral cochallenge in mice and is deficient in the ability to independently colonize the mouse kidney. Our analysis of c3405 to c3410 suggests that these genes constitute an operon with a role in the...
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