Ecology and Function of the Transmissible Locus of Stress Tolerance in Escherichia coli and Plant-Associated
<i>Enterobacteriaceae</i>

mSystems (Aug 2021)

Affiliations

Zhiying Wang: University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Huifeng Hu: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
Tongbo Zhu: University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jinshui Zheng: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
Michael G. Gänzle: ORCiD; University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
David J. Simpson: ORCiD; University of Alberta, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Abstract

The transmissible locus of stress tolerance (tLST) is a genomic island comprising 10 core genes that occurs in diverse Enterobacteriaceae