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T Shimizu1, S Ohshima, K Ohtani, T Shimizu1, H Hayashi.
Abstract
A physical and genetic map of Clostridium perfringens strain 13 was constructed. C. perfringens strain 13 was found to have a 3.1-Mb chromosome and a large 50-kb plasmid, indicating that strain 13 has a relatively small genome among C. perfringens strains. A total of 313 genetic markers were mapped on the chromosome of strain 13. Compared with the physical and genetic map of C. perfringens CPN50, strain 13 had a quite similar genome organization, but with a large deletion (approximately 400 kb) in a particular segment of the chromosome. Among several toxin genes, a beta2 toxin gene that is a novel virulence gene in C. perfringens was found to be located on the 50-kb plasmid.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11293486 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb01278.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbiol Immunol ISSN: 0385-5600 Impact factor: 1.955