Comparative genomic analyses of Streptococcus mutans provide insights into chromosomal shuffling and species-specific content

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Maruyama, Fumito ^a,c   Kobata, Mitsuhiko ^b   Kurokawa, Ken ^c   Nishida, Keishin ^a   Sakurai, Atsuo ^b   Nakano, Kazuhiko ^b   Nomura, Ryota ^b   Kawabata, Shigetada ^b   Ooshima, Takashi ^b   Nakai, Kenta ^a   Hattori, Masahira ^a   Hamada, Shigeyuki ^d   Nakagawa, Ichiro ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE PRODUCT; PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER 1; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACITRACIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA SHUFFLING; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGE; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS SEROTYPE C; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACITRACIN; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 69049090909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-358     Document Type: Article

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