Secrets of soil survival revealed by the genome sequence of Arthrobacter aurescens TC1

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2094-2106

  Mongodin, Emmanuel F ^a   Shapir, Nir ^b   Daugherty, Sean C ^a   DeBoy, Robert T ^a   Emerson, Joanne B ^a   Shvartzbeyn, Alla ^a   Radune, Diana ^a   Vamathevan, Jessica ^a   Riggs, Florenta ^a   Grinberg, Viktoria ^a   Khouri, Hoda ^a   Wackett, Lawrence P ^b   Nelson, Karen E ^a,c   Sadowsky, Michael J ^b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; MANGANESE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TREHALOSE; ATRAZINE; CIRCULAR DNA;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SOIL MICROFLORA; SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTHROBACTER AURESCENS; ARTHROBACTER SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; LEIFSONIA; STREPTOMYCES; TROPHERYMA;

ARTHROBACTER; ATRAZINE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 33846016960     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020214     Document Type: Article

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