The organization of two rRNA (rrn) operons of the slow-growing pathogen Mycobacterium celatum provides key insights into mycobacterial evolution

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-112

  Stadthagen Gomez, Gustavo ^a   Helguera Repetto, A Cecilia ^a   Cerna Cortes, Jorge F ^a   Goldstein, Richard A ^b   Cox, Robert A ^b   Gonzalez Y Merchand, Jorge A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mycobacterial evolution; Mycobacterium celatum; rRNA operons

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CELATUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CELATUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE;

EID: 38849151061     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01050.x     Document Type: Article

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