Ecology and Function of the Transmissible Locus of Stress Tolerance in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Escherichia coli</named-content> and Plant-Associated <italic toggle="yes">Enterobacteriaceae</italic>

ABSTRACT The transmissible locus of stress tolerance (tLST) is a genomic island which confers resistance to heat and chlorine. In this study, we determined that the tLST is frequent in genomes of those Enterobacteriaceae that occur in association with plants as well as the intestines of humans and a...

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Main Authors: Zhiying Wang, Huifeng Hu, Tongbo Zhu, Jinshui Zheng, Michael G. Gänzle, David J. Simpson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-08-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
LHR
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00378-21