Article
The Salmonella selC locus contains a pathogenicity island mediating intramacrophage survival.
The EMBO journal - 1 Sept 1997
Blanc-Potard A B, Groisman E A
Abstract excerpt
Pathogenicity islands are chromosomal clusters of horizontally acquired virulence genes that are often found at tRNA loci. The selC tRNA locus of Escherichia coli has served as the site of integration of two distinct pathogenicity islands which are responsible for converting benign strains into u...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Carrier Proteins
- Cation Transport Proteins
- Culture Media
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Female
- Genes, Bacterial
- Macrophages
- Magnesium
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family