Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, and other science journals and reference works
Nature
my account e-alerts subscribe register
   
Friday 27 November 2009
Journal Home
Current Issue
AOP
Archive
THIS ARTICLE
Download PDF
References
Export citation
Export references
Send to a friend
More articles like this
Table of Contents
< Previous | Next >

Article
Nature 216, 343 - 346 (28 October 1967); doi:10.1038/216343a0

Sex Pili and the Classification of Sex Factors in the Enterobacteriaceae

A. M. LAWN, ELINOR MEYNELL, G. G. MEYNELL & NAOMI DATTA

Department of Electron Microscopy, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, SW1
MRC Microbial Genetics Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Ducane Road, London, W12
Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, SW1
Department of Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Ducane Road, London, W12

The properties of sex pili determined by different plasmids of the Enterobacteriaceae suggest that there may be only two major classes of sex factor, typified by F and the factor of colicin factor lb.

  1. Crawford, E. M. , and Gesteland, R. F. , Virology, 22, 165 (1964). | Article |
  2. Caro, L. G. , and Schnös, M. , Proc. US Nat. Acad. Sci., 56, 126 (1966). | ChemPort |
  3. Brinton, C. C. , Gemski, P. , and Carnahan, J. , Proc. US Nat. Acad. Sci., 52, 776 (1964).
  4. Brinton, C. C. , Trans. NY Acad. Sci., 27, 1003 (1965). | ChemPort |
  5. Duguid, J. P. , Smith, I. W. , Dempster, G. , and Edwards, P. N. , J. Path. Bact., 70, 335 (1955). | Article | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  6. Duguid, J. P. , Anderson, E. S. , and Campbell, I. , J. Path. Bact., 92, 107 (1966). | Article | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  7. Brinton, C. C. , Nature, 183, 782 (1959). | PubMed | ISI |
  8. Datta, N. , Lawn, A. M. , and Meynell, E. , J. Gen. Microbiol., 45, 365 (1966). | PubMed | ChemPort |
  9. Lawn, A. M. , J. Gen. Microbiol., 45, 377 (1966). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  10. Meynell, E. , and Datta, N. , Nature, 214, 885 (1967). | Article | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  11. Meynell, G. G. , and Lawn, A. M. , Genet. Res., Camb., 9, 359 (1967). | ChemPort |
  12. Meynell, G. G. , and Lawn, A. M. , Genet Res., Camb., 10 (in the press); Proc. 1967 European Phage Meeting, 14.
  13. Nishimura, Y. , Ishibashi, M. , Meynell, E. , and Hirota, Y. , J. Gen. Microbiol. (in the press).
  14. Watanabe, T. , Bact. Rev., 27, 87 (1963); Watanabe, T. , Nishida, H. , Ogata, C. , Arai, T. S. , and Sato, S. , J. Bact., 88, 716 (1964); Datta, N. , Brit. Med. Bull., 21, 254 (1965). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  15. Meynell, E. , and Datta, N. , Genet. Res., Camb., 7, 134 (1966). | ChemPort |
  16. Kahn, P. , and Helinski, D. R. , J. Bact., 88, 1573 (1964). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  17. Ozeki, H. , Zentbl. Bakt. ParasitKde., Part 1, 196. 160 (1965).
  18. Stocker, B. A. D. , Smith, S. M. , and Ozeki, H. , J. Gen. Microbiol., 30, 201 (1963). | ISI |
  19. Hirota, Y. , and Sneath, P. H. A. , Jap. J. Genet., 36, 307 (1961).
  20. Jacob, F. , and Adelberg, E. A. , C.R. Acad. Sci., 249, 189 (1959). | ChemPort |
  21. Falkow, S. , and Baron, L. S. , J. Bact., 84, 581 (1962). | ISI |
  22. Egawa, R. , and Hirota, Y. , Jap. J. Genet., 37, 66 (1962). | ISI |
  23. Davis, J. E. , Strauss, J. H. , and Sinsheimer, R. L. , Science, 134, 1427 (1961). | ISI |
  24. Hofschneider, P. H. , Z. Naturforsch., 18b, 203 (1963).
  25. Fredericq, P. , and Betz-Bareau, M. , C.R. Soc. Biol., 150, 615 (1956). | ChemPort |
  26. Puig, J. , and Nagel de Zwaig, R. , Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 107, Suppl. 115 (1964).
  27. Meynell, E. , and Datta, N. , Genet. Res., Camb., 7, 141 (1966). | ChemPort |
  28. Williams Smith, H. , and Halls, S. , J. Gen. Microbiol., 47, 153 (1967). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  29. Lewis, M. J. , and Stocker, B. A. D. , Zentbl. Bakt. ParasitKde., Abt. 1, Orig., 196, 173 (1965).
  30. Lawn, A. M. , Nature, 214, 1151 (1967). | Article | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  31. Hirota, Y. , Nishimura, Y. , Orskov, F. , and Orskov, I. , J. Bact., 87, 341 (1964). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  32. Ozeki, H. , Stocker, B. A. D. , and Smith, S. M. , J. Gen. Microbiol., 28, 671 (1962). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  33. Atkinson, N. , Austral. J. Exp. Biol. Med. Sci., 44, 559 (1966). | ISI | ChemPort |
  34. Falkow, S. , Wohlheiter, J. A. , Citarella, R. V. , and Baron, L. S. , J. Bact., 88, 1598 (1964). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  35. Belser, W. L. , and Bunting, M. I. , J. Bact., 72, 582 (1956). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  36. Bhaskaran, K. , J. Gen. Microbiol., 23, 47 (1960). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
  37. Holloway, B. W. , and Jennings, P. A. , Nature, 181, 855 (1958). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |


© 1967 Nature Publishing Group
Privacy Policy