Protein signatures distinctive of chlamydial species: Horizontal transfers of cell wall biosynthesis genes glmU from archaea to chlamydiae and murA between chlamydiae and Streptomyces

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2541-2549

  Griffiths, Emma ^a   Gupta, Radhey S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Cell wall biosynthesis; Chlamydia like organisms; Lateral gene transfer

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR; MAGNESIUM; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHORYLASE; PROTEINASE; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1 CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE; BACTERIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; UDP N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1 CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; UDP-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1-CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; UDPACETYLGLUCOSAMINE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL TRANSFER; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCREENING TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES; VALIDATION PROCESS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA SUIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; CHLAMYDOPHILA FELIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FELIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; RICKETTSIALES; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; STREPTOMYCES; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ARCHAEA; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDIALES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0036667440     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-8-2541     Document Type: Article

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