Bacterial α2-macroglobulins: colonization factors acquired by horizontal gene transfer from the metazoan genome?

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Budd, Aidan ^a   Blandin, Stephanie ^a   Levashina, Elena A ^b   Gibson, Toby J ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial Taxon; Complement Factor; Horizontal Gene Transfer; Horseshoe Crab; Leptospirosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; FUSOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DATABASE; SPIROCHETE;

ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; DATABASES, PROTEIN; FUSOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 4844221596     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-6-r38     Document Type: Article

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