title: Prevalence of known P-fimbrial G alleles in Escherichia coli and identification of a new adhesin class.
abstract: Screening a large Escherichia coli collection for P-fimbrial adhesin classes identified 20 unclassifiable strains. Cloning and sequencing of papG from an unclassifiable strain identified another G allele. The novel adhesin gene has 65% identity to the class I adhesin gene, 44% identity to the class II adhesin gene, and 43% identity to the class III adhesin gene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Manning
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Foxman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spindler
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tallman
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Marrs
mesh_terms: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial