Whole genome comparisons of serotype 4b and 1/2a strains of the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes reveal new insights into the core genome components of this species

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2386-2395

  Nelson, Karen E ^c   Fouts, Derrick E ^c   Mongodin, Emmanuel F ^c   Ravel, Jacques ^c   DeBoy, Robert T ^c   Kolonay, James F ^c   Rasko, David A ^c   Angiuoli, Samuel V ^c   Gill, Steven R ^c   Paulsen, Ian T ^c   Peterson, Jeremy ^c   White, Owen ^c   Nelson, William C ^c   Nierman, William ^c   Beanan, Maureen J ^c   Brinkac, Lauren M ^c   Daugherty, Sean C ^c   Dodson, Robert J ^c   Durkin, A Scott ^c   Madupu, Ramana ^c   Haft, Daniel H ^c   Selengut, Jeremy ^c   Van Aken, Susan ^c   Khouri, Hoda ^c   Fedorova, Nadia ^c   Forberger, Heather ^c   Tran, Bao ^c   Kathariou, Sophia ^a   Wonderling, Laura D ^b   Uhlich, Gaylen A ^b   Bayles, Darrel O ^b   Luchansky, John B ^b   Fraser, Claire M ^c   more..

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; RHAMNOSE; TEICHOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROPHAGE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEAT; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPHAGES; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 2442531727     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh562     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Kathariou,S. (2003) Foodborne, outbreaks of listeriosis and epidemic-associated lineages of Listeria monocytogenes. In Torrence,M.E. and Isaacson,R.E. (eds), Microbial Food Safety in Animal Agriculture. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA.
2. Mead,P.S., Slutsker,L., Dietz,V., McCaig,L.F., Bresee,J.S., Shapiro,C., Griffin,P.M. and Tauxe,R.V. (1999) Food-related illness and death in the United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis., 5, 607-625.
3. Kathariou,S. (2002) Listeria monocytogenes virulence and pathogenicity, a food safety perspective. J. Food Prot., 65, 1811-1829.
4. World Health Organization Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards. (2001) Programme, Proposed Draft Guidelines for the Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Foods. Technical Report No. Agenda Item 6. Codex Alimentarius Commission.
5. Bibb,W.F., Gellin,B.G., Weaver,R., Schwartz,B., Plikaytis,B.D., Reeves,M.W., Pinner,R.W. and Broome,C.V. (1990) Analysis of clinical and food-borne isolates of Listeria monocytogenes in the United States by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and application of the method to epidemiologic investigations. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 56, 2133-2141.
6. Piffaretti,J.C., Kressebuch,H., Aeschbacher,M., Bille,J., Bannerman,E., Musser,J.M., Selander,R.K. and Rocourt,J. (1989) Genetic characterization of clones of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes causing epidemic disease. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 86, 3818-3822.
7. Brosch,R., Chen,J. and Luchansky,J.B. (1994) Pulsed-field fingerprinting of listeriae: identification of genomic divisions for Listeria monocytogenes and their correlation with serovar. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 60, 2584-2592.
8. Glaser,P., Frangeul,L., Buchrieser,C., Rusniok,C., Amend,A., Baquero,F., Berche,P., Bloecker,H., Brandt,P., Chakraborty,T. et al. (2001) Comparative genomics of Listeria species. Science, 294, 849-852.
9. Mascola,L., Lieb,L., Chiu,J., Fannin,S.L. and Linnan,M.J. (1988) Listeriosis: an uncommon opportunistic infection in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. A report of five cases and a review of the literature. Am. J. Med., 84, 162-164.
10. (1989) Epidemiological notes and reports listeriosis associated with consumption of Turkey Franks. MMWR Weekly, 38, 267-268.
11. (1998) Multistate outbreak of Listeriosis - United States, 1998. MMWR Weekly, 47, 1085-1086.
12. Nelson,K.E., Clayton,R.A., Gill,S.R., Gwinn,M.L., Dodson,R.J., Haft,D.H., Hickey,E.K., Peterson,J.D., Nelson,W.C., Ketchum,K.A. et al. (1999) Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima. Nature, 399, 323-329.
13. Delcher,A.L., Phillippy,A., Carlton,J. and Salzberg,S.L. (2002) Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison. Nucleic Acids Res., 30, 2478-2483.
14. Delcher,A.L., Harmon,D., Kasif,S., White,O. and Salzberg,S.L. (1999) Improved microbial gene identification with GLIMMER. Nucleic Acids Res., 27, 4636-4641.
15. Krogh,A., Larsson,B., von Heijne,G. and Sonnhammer,E.L. (2001) Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden Markov model: application to complete genomes. J. Mol. Biol., 305, 567-580.
16. Ewing,B., Hillier,L., Wendl,M.C. and Green,P. (1998) Base-calling of automated sequencer traces using phred. I. Accuracy assessment. Genome Res., 8, 175-185.
17. Ewing,B. and Green,P. (1998) Base-calling of automated sequencer traces using phred. II. Error probabilities. Genome Res., 8, 186-194.
18. Engdahl,H.M., Hjalt,T.A. and Wagner,E.G. (1997) A two unit antisense RNA cassette test system for silencing of target genes. Nucleic Acids Res., 25, 3218-3227.
19. Stefan,A., Reggiani,L., Cianchetta,S., Radeghieri,A., Gonzalez Vara y Rodriguez,A. and Hochkoeppler,A. (2003) Silencing of the gene coding for the epsilon subunit of DNA polymerase III slows down the growth rate of Escherichia coli populations. FEBS Lett., 546, 295-299.
20. Jansen,R., Embden,J.D., Gaastra,W. and Schouls,L.M. (2002) Identification of genes that are associated with DNA repeats in prokaryotes. Mol. Microbiol., 43, 1565-1575.
21. Jansen,R., van Embden,J.D., Gaastra,W. and Schouls,L.M. (2002) Identification of a novel family of sequence repeats among prokaryotes. Omics, 6, 23-33.
22. Loessner,M.J., Inman,R.B., Lauer,P. and Calendar,R. (2000) Complete nucleotide sequence, molecular analysis and genome structure of bacteriophage A118 of Listeria monocytogenes: implications for phage evolution. Mol. Microbiol., 35, 324-340.
23. Read,T.D., Salzberg,S.L., Pop,M., Shumway,M., Umayam,L., Jiang,L., Holtzapple,E., Busch,J.D., Smith,K.L., Schupp,J.M. et al. (2002) Comparative genome sequencing for discovery of novel polymorphisms in Bacillus anthracis. Science, 296, 2028-2033.
24. Autret,N., Raynaud,C., Dubail,I., Berche,P. and Charbit,A. (2003) Identification of the agr locus of Listeria monocytogenes: role in bacterial virulence. Infect. Immun., 71, 4463-4471.
25. Schuchat,A., Swaminathan,B. and Broome,C.V. (1991) Listeria monocytogenes CAMP reaction. Clin. Microbiol. Rev., 4, 169-183.
26. Murray,E.G. (1953) The story of Listeria. Trans. R. Soc. Can., 47, 15-21.