The genome of streptococcus mitis B6 - What is a commensal?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Denapaite, Dalia ^a   Brückner, Reinhold ^a   Nuhn, Michael ^a,c   Reichmann, Peter ^a   Henrich, Bernhard ^a   Maurer, Patrick ^a   Schähle, Yvonne ^a   Selbmann, Peter ^b   Zimmermann, Wolfgang ^b   Wambutt, Rolf ^b   Hakenbeck, Regine ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b AGOWA Genomics   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COMMENSAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77949769229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009426     Document Type: Article

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