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Abstract
The genes encoding the heat-labile toxin of Escherichia coli were isolated by recombinant DNA methods from enterotoxigenic E. coli recovered from a human and a piglet with diarrhea. With restriction endonucleases, a fine-structure map was made for the toxin genes. Both genes were found to be highly homologous within the toxin-coding DNA, but the surrounding DNA sequences were found to be quite divergent. Analysis of in vitro-derived mutants demonstrated that the cistrons for the toxin proteins were located at the same sites on each restriction enzyme map.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6302001 PMCID: PMC264903 DOI: 10.1128/iai.40.2.647-652.1983
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441