| Literature DB >> 9103981 |
R Babai1, G Blum-Oehler, B E Stern, J Hacker, E Z Ron.
Abstract
Several septicemic Escherichia coli O78 strains, isolated from different sources, were characterized phenotypically and genotypically. Two avian isolates, one of which is known to carry the AC/I fimbriae, hybridized with the sfa determinant in colony dot-blot assay. Southern hybridizations with specific sfa probes, following pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), showed positive hybridization to the same fragment in each of these strains. Determination of the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the AC/I major subunit gene revealed high similarity to the sequence of the SfaA-II protein. These data suggest that the adhesin gene cluster, coding for AC/I fimbriae, belongs to the S-fimbrial adhesin family.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID： 9103981 DOI： 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1997.tb10315.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Microbiol Lett ISSN： 0378-1097 Impact factor: 2.742