Analysis of the Legionella longbeachae genome and transcriptome uncovers unique strategies to cause Legionnaires' disease

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Cazalet, Christel ^a   Gomez Valero, Laura ^a   Rusniok, Christophe ^a   Lomma, Mariella ^a   Dervins Ravault, Delphine ^a   Newton, Hayley J ^b   Sansom, Fiona M ^b   Jarraud, Sophie ^c   Zidane, Nora ^d   Ma, Laurence ^d   Bouchier, Christiane ^d   Etienne, Jerôme ^c   Hartland, Elizabeth L ^b   Buchrieser, Carmen ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BASE PAIRING; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; EUKARYOTA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE PAIRING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MICE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77649198508     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000851     Document Type: Article

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