The large-sized plasmids of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 strains encode hemolysins which are presumably members of the E. coli alpha-hemolysin family.

doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb06763.x

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The large-sized plasmids of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 strains encode hemolysins which are presumably members of the E. coli alpha-hemolysin family.

FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Apr 1994

Schmidt H, Karch H, Beutin L

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Most enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains harbor a large-sized (90 kb) plasmid designated pO157 and show an enterohemolytic phenotype. In this study the hemolytic activity of E. coli O157:H7 strain EDL933 was investigated. Curing of strain EDL933 from pO157 resulted in loss of its h...

Topics

Base Sequence
Escherichia coli
Hemolysin Proteins
Hemolysis
Molecular Sequence Data
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Phenotype
Plasmids
Restriction Mapping
Virulence

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