TY - JOUR
T1 - Evolutionary relationship among rfb gene clusters synthesizing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella
AU - Sugiyama, Tsuyoshi
AU - Kido, Nobuo
AU - Kato, Yutaka
AU - Koide, Naoki
AU - Yoshida, Tomoaki
AU - Yokochi, Takashi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank G. Schmidt (Forschungsinstitut, Borstel, Germany), I. Ørskov (E. coli and Klebsiella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark) and N. Kato (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan), for providing bacterial strains. This work was supported by the Uehara Memorial Foundation.
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PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In order to clarify the evolutionary relationship among rfb gene clusters synthesizing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella, we studied the DNA sequence of the boundary region between the rfb and his genes in a series of strains possessing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharide. All had a characteristic gene organization carrying no gene between the rfb and his genes. Further, the recombination event was suggested to occur at the same site of the hisI gene in those strains. It was suggested that there was a close evolutionary relationship among rfb gene clusters synthesizing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharide in E. coli and Klebsiella.
AB - In order to clarify the evolutionary relationship among rfb gene clusters synthesizing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella, we studied the DNA sequence of the boundary region between the rfb and his genes in a series of strains possessing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharide. All had a characteristic gene organization carrying no gene between the rfb and his genes. Further, the recombination event was suggested to occur at the same site of the hisI gene in those strains. It was suggested that there was a close evolutionary relationship among rfb gene clusters synthesizing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccharide in E. coli and Klebsiella.
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U2 - 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00300-4
DO - 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00300-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 9370271
AN - SCOPUS:0030720103
VL - 198
SP - 111
EP - 113
JO - Gene
JF - Gene
SN - 0378-1119
IS - 2 JAN
ER -