Unique physiological and pathogenic features of Leptospira interrogans revealed by whole-genome sequencing

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6934, 2003, Pages 888-893

  Ren, Shuang Xi ^a,b   Fu, Gang ^a,c   Jiang, Xiu Gao ^d   Zeng, Rong ^b   Miao, You Gang ^b   Xu, Hai ^b   Zhang, Yi Xuan ^b   Xiong, Hui ^c   Lu, Gang ^a   Lu, Ling Feng ^a   Jiang, Hong Quan ^a,c   Jia, Jia ^a   Tu, Yue Feng ^a   Jiang, Ju Xing ^a   Gu, Wen Yi ^a   Zhang, Yue Qing ^a,e   Cai, Zhen ^a   Sheng, Hai Hui ^a   Yin, Hai Feng ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Zhu, Gen Feng ^a   Wan, Ma ^d   Huang, Hong Lei ^d   Qian, Zhen ^a   Wang, Sheng Yue ^a   Ma, Wei ^b   Yao, Zhi Jian ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Qiang, Bo Qin ^a   Xia, Qi Chang ^b   Guo, Xiao Kui ^c   Danchin, Antoine ^f   Saint Girons, Isabelle ^g   Somerville, Ronald L ^h   Wen, Yu Mei ^e   Shi, Man Hua ^d   Chen, Zhu ^a,c   Xu, Jian Guo ^d   Zhao, Guo Ping ^a,b   more..

^a CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^h PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; DISEASE CONTROL; GENES; MORPHOLOGY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PATHOGENIC FEATURES;

PHYSIOLOGY;

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; TRANSFER RNA;

GENOME; MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENOME; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CHEMOTAXIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0037464546     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01597     Document Type: Article

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