Chlamydiae-specific proteins and indels: novel tools for studies

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 527-535

  Gupta, Radhey S ^a   Griffiths, Emma ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL FUNCTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDIAE;

EID: 33750982681     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.10.002     Document Type: Review

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