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SUBMITTER: Mosberg JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3133213 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mosberg Joshua A JA Yep Alejandra A Meredith Timothy C TC Smith Sara S Wang Pan-Fen PF Holler Tod P TP Mobley Harry L T HL Woodard Ronald W RW
Journal of bacteriology 20110415 12
Previous studies showed that deletion of genes c3405 to c3410 from PAI-metV, a genomic island from Escherichia coli CFT073, results in a strain that fails to compete with wild-type CFT073 after a transurethral cochallenge in mice and is deficient in the ability to independently colonize the mouse kidney. Our analysis of c3405 to c3410 suggests that these genes constitute an operon with a role in the internalization and utilization of an unknown carbohydrate. This operon is not found in E. coli K ...[more]