The Mycoplasma fermentans prophage φMFV1: Genome organization, mobility and variable expression of an encoded surface protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1703-1720

  Roske K ^a   Calcutt, M J ^a,b   Wise, K S ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MEM; PROTEOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HOST; MAMMAL; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNTENY; TAXONOMY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; CAUDOVIRALES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENE ORDER; GENOME, VIRAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 3042643034     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04087.x     Document Type: Article

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