The htpAB operon of Legionella pneumophila cannot be deleted in the presence of the groE chaperonin operon of Escherichia coli

Gheyath K. Nasrallah,a Elizabeth Gagnon,a,* Dennis J. Orton,a,† Rafael A. Garduñoa,b aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 7th Floor, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS B3H 1X5, Canada.

bDepartment of Medicine — Division of Infectious Diseases, Dalhousie University, Dickson Building, 1276 South Park Street, Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9, Canada.

*Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

†Present address: Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, NS B3H 1X5, Canada

Published on the web 27 October 2011.

Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 2011, 57:(11) 943-952, 10.1139/w11-086

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