Association of rns homologs with colonization factor antigens in clinical Escherichia coli isolates.

doi:10.1128/iai.58.10.3442-3444.1990

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Association of rns homologs with colonization factor antigens in clinical Escherichia coli isolates.

Infection and immunity - 1 Oct 1990

Caron J, Maneval D R, Kaper J B, Scott J R

Abstract excerpt

rns is a trans-acting positive regulatory factor required for expression of the colonization factor antigen II (CFA/II) antigens CS1 and CS2 (J. Caron, L. M. Coffield, and J. R. Scott, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:963-967, 1989). All 35 CFA/II-positive strains hybridized with a rns gene probe, a...

Topics

Antigens, Bacterial
DNA Probes
DNA, Bacterial
Escherichia coli
Fimbriae Proteins
Genes, Bacterial
Humans
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Phenotype
Plasmids
Restriction Mapping

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