Open AccessA plasmid‐borne O‐antigen chain length determinant and its relationship to other chain length determinants
Author(s) -
Stevenson Gordon,
Kessler Annette,
R. Reeves Peter
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07330.x
Subject(s) - plasmid , escherichia coli , gene , biology , antigen , genetics , chain (unit) , enterobacteriaceae , peptide sequence , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , astronomy
We identify a function‐controlling O antigen chain length for a plasmid‐borne gene, cld pHS‐2 harboured by Flexneri strains of Escherichia coli known to cause reactive arthritis. The predicted amino acid sequence of the gene product is very similar to those of other cld genes and that of fepE , thought to be part of the enterobactin iron uptake system of E. coli . The predicted proteins are compared with rfb ‐associated chain length determinants as a family of related genes