Complete sequence and comparative genome analysis of the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1554-1558

  Bolotin, Alexander ^a   Quinquis, Benoît ^a   Renault, Pierre ^a   Sorokin, Alexei ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a   Kulakauskas, Saulius ^a   Lapidus, Alla ^b,d   Goltsman, Eugene ^b,d   Mazur, Michael ^b   Pusch, Gordon D ^b,e   Fonstein, Michael ^b,f   Overbeek, Ross ^b,e   Kyprides, Nikos ^b,d   Purnelle, Bénédicte ^c   Prozzi, Deborah ^c   Ngui, Katrina ^c,g   Masuy, David ^c   Hancy, Frédéric ^c   Burteau, Sophie ^c,h   Boutry, Marc ^c   Delcour, Jean ^c   Goffeau, André ^c   Hols, Pascal ^c   more..

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Integrated Genomics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d Dept of Ener Jt Genome Institute   (United States)

^e Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes   (United States)

^f CLEVELAND BIOLABS INC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; MICROORGANISMS; PATHOLOGY;

CELLULAR PROCESSES; GENOME STRUCTURE; LACTIC ACID; PATHOGENIC POTENTIAL;

GENES;

YOGHURT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBON UTILIZATION; CHEESEMAKING; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; DAIRY INDUSTRY; DAIRY PRODUCT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YOGURT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 19944414611     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1034     Document Type: Article

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