Multiplex sequencing of 1.5 Mb of the Mycobacterium leprae genome

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 802-819

  Smith, Douglas R ^a   Richterich, Peter ^a   Rubenfield, Marc ^a   Rice, Philip W ^a   Butler, Carol ^a   Lee, Hong Mei ^a   Kirst, Susan ^a   Gundersen, Kristin ^a   Abendschan, Kari ^a   Xu, Qinxue ^a   Chung, Maria ^a   Deloughery, Craig ^a   Aldredge, Tyler ^a   Maher, James ^a   Lundstrom, Ronald ^a   Tulig, Craig ^a   Falls, Kathleen ^a   Imrich, Joan ^a   Torrey, Dana ^a   Engelstein, Marcy ^a   Breton, Gary ^a   Madan, Deepika ^a   Nietupski, Raymond ^a   Seitz, Bruce ^a   Connelly, Steven ^a   McDougall, Steven ^a   Safer, Hershel ^a   Gibson, Rene ^a   Doucette Stamm, Lynn ^a   Eiglmeier, Karin ^d   Bergh, Staffan ^d   Cole, Stewart T ^d   Robison, Keith ^c   Richterich, Laura ^c   Johnson, Jason ^c   Church, George M ^b,c   Mao, Jen I ^a   more..

^a GENOME THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; POLYKETIDE; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SYNTHETASE; TRANSFER RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COSMID; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 0030986553     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.8.802     Document Type: Article

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