Many bacteria produce secreted virulence factors called exotoxins. Exotoxins are often
encoded by mobile genetic elements, including bacteriophage (phage). Phage can transfer …

Recent advances in metagenomics research have generated a bounty of information that
provides insight into the dynamic genetic exchange occurring between bacteriophage …

Many human diseases are caused by pathogens that produce exotoxins. The genes that
encode these exotoxins are frequently encoded by mobile DNA elements such as plasmids …

We have cloned a gene from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that stimulates the expression of
exotoxin A. A recombinant library of genomic DNA from strain PA103 constructed with a …

Exotoxin A production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a complicated and highly regulated
process that involves several genes. In this report, we describe the isolation of a new toxA …

Amongst the various mechanisms developed by pathogenic bacteria to cause disease,
toxins play an important role, since they are responsible for the majority of symptoms and …

Nucleotide sequence and Southern hybridization data revealed a mosaic genome
organization in a region that extends several thousand base pairs upstream of the exotoxin …

Introduction: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as an opportunistic microorganism, is a major
cause of nosocomial infections worldwide. Exotoxin A (ETA) is an extracellular enzyme that …

A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was
divided into three nonoverlapping probes. Two probes covering the ETA structural gene …

Aims To determine if the bacteriophage abortive infection system ToxIN is present in
foodborne Salmonella and if it protects against infection by bacteriophages specific to …