Genome sequence of Symbiobacterium thermophilum, an uncultivable bacterium that depends on microbial commensalism

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4937-4944

  Ueda, Kenji ^d   Yamashita, Atsushi ^a   Ishikawa, Jun ^b   Shamada, Masafumi ^d   Watsuji, Tomo O ^d   Morimura, Kohji ^d   Ikeda, Haruo ^a   Hattori, Masahira ^a,c   Beppu, Teruhiko ^d  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DNA 16S; GUANINE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; COMMENSALISM; COMPOST; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTRON; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM; TAXON; ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SYMBIOBACTERIUM; SYMBIOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4644315656     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh830     Document Type: Article

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