A bacterial genome in flux: The twelve linear and nine circular extrachromosomal DNAs in an infectious isolate of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 490-516

  Casjens, Sherwood ^a   Palmer, Nanette ^a   Van Vugt, René ^a   Huang, Wai Mun ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^b   Rosa, Patricia ^c   Lathigra, Raju ^d   Sutton, Granger ^e   Peterson, Jeremy ^e   Dodson, Robert J ^e   Haft, Daniel ^e   Hickey, Erin ^e   Gwinn, Michelle ^e   White, Owen ^e   Fraser, Claire M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, CIRCULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0033975239     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01698.x     Document Type: Article

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