Three genomes from the phylum Acidobacteria provide insight into the lifestyles of these microorganisms in soils

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2046-2056

  Ward, Naomi L ^a,b,h   Challacombe, Jean F ^c,d   Janssen, Peter H ^e,f   Henrissat, Bernard ^g   Coutinho, Pedro M ^g   Wu, Martin ^a,i   Xie, Gary ^c,d   Haft, Daniel H ^a   Sait, Michelle ^e,i   Badger, Jonathan ^a   Barabote, Ravi D ^c,d   Bradley, Brent ^a   Brettin, Thomas S ^c,d   Brinkac, Lauren M ^a   Bruce, David ^c,d   Creasy, Todd ^a   Daugherty, Sean C ^a   Davidsen, Tanja M ^a   DeBoy, Robert T ^a   Detter, J Chris ^c,d   Dodson, Robert J ^a   Durkin, A Scott ^a   Ganapathy, Anuradha ^a   Gwinn Giglio, Michelle ^a   Han, Cliff S ^c,d   Khouri, Hoda ^a   Kiss, Hajnalka ^c,d   Kothari, Sagar P ^a   Madupu, Ramana ^a   Nelson, Karen E ^a   Nelson, William C ^a   Paulsen, Ian ^a   Penn, Kevin ^a   Ren, Qinghu ^a   Rosovitz, M J ^a   Selengut, Jeremy D ^a   Shrivastava, Susmita ^a   Sullivan, Steven A ^a   Tapia, Roxanne ^c,d   Thompson, Sue ^c,d   Watkins, Kisha L ^a   Yang, Qi ^a   Yu, Chunhui ^a   Zafar, Nikhat ^a   Zhou, Liwei ^a   Kuske, Cheryl R ^c   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Center of Marine Biotechnology   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTERS; ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS; BIOFILM FORMATIONS; CARBON SOURCES; CELLULOSE SYNTHESIS; COMPLETE GENOMES; COMPLEX SUBSTRATES; HETEROTROPHS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHTS; LARGE CLASS; MACROLIDE; MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILIES; METABOLIC RATES; NITRITE REDUCTIONS; NOVEL PROTEINS; NUTRIENT CONDITIONS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SIDEROPHORE PRODUCTIONS; SIDEROPHORE RECEPTORS; SOIL STRUCTURES; TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLES;

CELL CULTURE; CELLULOSE; MICROORGANISMS; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMERS; PROTEINS; SOILS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

GENES;

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARBON; CELLULOSE; CHITIN; HEMICELLULOSE; IRON; MACROLIDE; NITROGEN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; SIDEROPHORE; SUGAR;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CARBON CYCLE; CELLULOSE; CHITIN; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HYDRATION; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL STRUCTURE; SUGAR; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CARBON CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; DESICCATION; FUNGUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HETEROTROPH; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SOIL MICROFLORA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUNGI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MACROLIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; CELLULOSE; FUNGI; HEMICELLULOSES; HYDRATION; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; SOIL; SUCROSE;

ACIDOBACTERIA; FUNGI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 63849207489     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02294-08     Document Type: Article

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