Analysis of the Products of Genes Encompassed by the Theoretically Predicted Pathogenicity Islands of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 563-568

  Zubrzycki, Igor Z ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blast; Pathogenicity; PE_PGRS; PPE

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS CDC1551; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS H37RV; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 1042302795     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.10586     Document Type: Article

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