Contributions of genome sequencing to understanding the biology of Helicobacter pylori

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 1999, Pages 353-387

  Ge, Zhongming ^a   Taylor, Diane E ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Genomic organization; Shuttle vectors; Virulence determinants

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADHESIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATALASE; CHAPERONIN; CYTOTOXIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; FLAGELLIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE SYNTHASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STOMACH CANCER; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032724132     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.53.1.353     Document Type: Review

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