The lcrB (yscN/U) gene cluster of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is involved in Yop secretion and shows high homology to the spa gene clusters of Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhimurium.

Abstract excerpt

Virulent bacteria of the genus Yersinia secrete a number of virulence determinants called Yops. These proteins lack typical signal sequences and are not posttranslationally processed. Two gene loci have been identified as being involved in the specific Yop secretion system (G. Cornelis, p. 231-265, In C. E. Hormache, C. W. Penn, and C. J. Smythe, ed., Molecular Biology of Bacterial Infection, 1992; S. C. Straley,...

Topics

• Adenosine Triphosphatases
• Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
• Bacterial Proteins
• Base Sequence
• Carrier Proteins
• Conserved Sequence
• DNA-Binding Proteins
• Luciferases
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Multigene Family