Genomics of pyrrolnitrin biosynthetic loci: Evidence for conservation and whole-operon mobility within Gram-negative bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-175

  Costa, Rodrigo ^a   Van Aarle, Ingrid M ^a,b   Mendes, Rodrigo ^c   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PYRROLNITRIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKHOLDERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA; SYNTENY;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BURKHOLDERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS; PYRROLNITRIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERRATIA; SYNTENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIALES; SERRATIA;

EID: 58149242718     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01750.x     Document Type: Article

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