Tropheryma whipplei Twist: A human pathogenic actinobacteria with a reduced genome

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1800-1809

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Ogata, Hiroyuki ^b   Audic, Stéphane ^b   Robert, Catherine ^a   Suhre, Karsten ^b   Drancourt, Michel ^a   Claverie, Jean Michel ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); GUANINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AMINO ACIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSEUDOGENES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI STR. TWIST; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0043026766     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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