Host and invader impact of transfer of the clc genomic island into Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 7058-7063

  Gaillard, Muriel ^a   Pernet, Nataskha ^a   Vogne, Christelle ^a   Hagenbüchle, Otto ^a,b   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fitness; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; ACETOIN; BACTERIAL DNA; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA; RIFAMPICIN; SUCCINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOFILM; CLC GENE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RIFAMPIN; RNA, TRANSFER, GLY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 44349111947     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801269105     Document Type: Article

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