Evidence for horizontal gene transfer in evolution of elongation factor Tu in enterococci

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 6913-6920

  Ke, D ^a   Boissinot, M ^a   Huletsky, A ^a   Picard, F J ^a   Frenette, J ^a   Ouellette, M ^a   Roy, P H ^a   Bergeron, M G ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ELONGATION FACTOR; RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ENTEROCOCCUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLUMBAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CECORUM; ENTEROCOCCUS COLUMBAE; ENTEROCOCCUS DISPAR; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ENTEROCOCCUS MALODORATUS; ENTEROCOCCUS MUNDTII; ENTEROCOCCUS PSEUDOAVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS RAFFINOSUS; ENTEROCOCCUS SACCHAROLYTICUS; ENTEROCOCCUS SOLITARIUS; ENTEROCOCCUS SULFUREUS; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0034460087     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.24.6913-6920.2000     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. A protein-based phylogenetic tree for gram-positive bacteria derived from hrcA, a unique heat-shock regulatory gene
2. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A new generation of protein database search programs
3. The root of the universal tree and the origin of eukaryotes based on elongation factor phylogeny
4. ALSCRIPT: A tool to format multiple sequence alignments
5. Genetic and molecular analysis of the tRNA-tufB operon of the myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca
6. Gene descent, duplication, and horizontal transfer in the evolution of glutamyl- and glutaminyl-tRNA synthetases
7. Characterisation of the str operon genes from Spirulina platensis and their evolutionary relationship to those of other prokaryotes
8. Monoclonal antibodies specific for elongation factor Tu and complete nucleotide sequence of the tuf gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
9. Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence
10. The sequence of the gene encoding elongation factor Tu from Chlamydia trachomatis compared with those of other organisms
11. The complete genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus
12. Microbial genomes opened up
13. Enterococcus
14. Duplication of the tuf gene, which encodes peptide chain elongation factor Tu, is widespread in gram-negative bacteria
15. Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd
16. Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi
17. The minimal gene complement of Mycoplasma genitalium
18. Complete genome sequence of Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete
19. Determination of the number of tuf genes in Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
20. Regulation of the expression of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translation factors
21. SWISS-MODEL and the Swiss-Pdb-Viewer: An environment for comparative protein modeling
22. Complete sequence analysis of the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae
23. Horizontal gene transfer among genomes: The complexity hypothesis
24. Sequence analysis of the genome of the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803. II. Sequence determination of the entire genome and assignment of potential protein-coding regions
25. Development of a PCR assay for detection of enterococci at the genus level
26. Genomics: Re-evaluation of translation machinery evolution
27. Prokaryotic genomes: The emerging paradigm of genome-based microbiology
28. Structure and expression of elongation factor Tu from Bacillus stearothermophilus
29. The complete genome sequence of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis
30. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the Mycoplasma hominis tuf gene and its flanking region
31. Phylogenetic relationships of bacteria based on comparative sequence analysis of elongation factor Tu and ATP-synthase β-subunit genes
32. Complete nucleotide sequences of seven eubacterial genes coding for the elongation factor Tu: Functional, structural and phylogenetic evaluations
33. Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima
34. Phe, EF-Tu, and a GTP analog
35. Organization and codon usage of the streptomycin operon in Micrococcus luteus, a bacterium with a high genomic G+C content
36. Determination of 16S rRNA sequences of enterococci and application to species identification of nonmotile Enterococcus gallinarum isolates
37. 16S rRNA sequence diversity in Mycobacterium celatum strains caused by presence of two different copies of 16S rRNA gene
38. Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence and expression of the tufB gene encoding elongation factor Tu from Thermus thermophilus HB8
39. Duplication of the tuf gene: A new insight into the phylogeny of eubacteria
40. Crystal structure of intact elongation factor EF-Tu from Escherichia coli in GDP conformation at 2.05 Å resolution
41. A chimeric disposition of the elongation factor genes in Rickettsia prowazekii
42. Horizontal gene transfer: Evidence and possible consequences
43. Two tuf genes in the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis
44. The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
45. Two distinct mechanisms cause heterogeneity of 16S rRNA
46. Cloning and sequencing of the tuf genes of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
47. Three tuf-like genes in the kirromycin producer Streptomyces ramocissimus
48. Evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases - Analysis of unique domain architectures and phylogenetic trees reveals a complex history of horizontal gene transfer events
49. Distinct types of rRNA operons exist in the genome of the actinomycete Thermomonospora chromogena and evidence for horizontal transfer of an entire rRNA operon