Article
Identification and characterization of a zinc metalloprotease associated with invasion by the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum.
Infection and immunity - 1 Nov 1990
Norqvist A, Norrman B, Wolf-Watz H
Abstract excerpt
An invasiveness-defective mutant of the fish-pathogenic bacterium Vibrio anguillarum was isolated. Compared with the wild type, this mutant had a 1,000-fold higher 50% lethal dose after immersion infection of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, while after intraperitoneal infection, the mutant ha...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Endopeptidases
- Hemolysis
- Metalloendopeptidases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Molecular Weight
- Mutation
- Trout
- Vibrio
- Virulence