A genomic island in Vibrio cholerae with VPI-1 site-specific recombination characteristics contains CRISPR-Cas and type VI secretion modules.
Maurizio Labbate,
Fabini D Orata,
Nicola K Petty,
Nathasha D Jayatilleke,
William L King,
Paul C Kirchberger,
Chris Allen,
Gulay Mann,
Ankur Mutreja,
Nicholas R Thomson,
Yan Boucher,
Ian G Charles
Feb 07, 2019
Cholera is a devastating diarrhoeal disease caused by certain strains of serogroup O1/O139 Vibrio cholerae. Mobile genetic elements such as genomic islands (GIs) have been pivotal in the evolution of O1/O139 V. cholerae. Perhaps...