The genome of the amoeba symbiont "Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus" reveals common mechanisms for host cell interaction among amoeba-associated bacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1045-1057

  Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a   Tischler, Patrick ^b   Arnold, Roland ^b   Montanaro, Jacqueline ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a   Rattei, Thomas ^b   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UBIQUITIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); AMOEBA ASSOCIATED BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANDIDATUS AMOEBOPHILUS ASIATICUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMOEBA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDETES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

AMOEBA (GENUS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CANDIDATUS AMOEBOPHILUS ASIATICUS; CHLAMYDIAE; EUKARYOTA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; RICKETTSIA BELLII;

EID: 75749107844     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01379-09     Document Type: Article

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