Genome diversity at the serA-linked capsule locus in Escherichia coli.

Abstract:

:Individual isolates of Escherichia coli synthesize one of more than 70 chemically distinct polysaccharides which form the capsule. In this article we review the genetics of capsule production in E. coli and highlight what this is beginning to reveal in terms of the genetic basis of the structural diversity of polysaccharides. The serA-linked capsule locus can take three different allelic forms. Two of these are associated with capsule genes and are themselves internally variant, whilst the third form has not so far been implicated in capsule biogenesis. Thus the serA-linked region of the E. coli genome is strikingly polymorphic.

journal_name

FEMS Microbiol Lett

authors

Boulnois G,Drake R,Pearce R,Roberts I

doi

10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb14029.x

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-12-15 00:00:00

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121-4

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1-3

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0378-1097

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1574-6968

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100

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