Genome analysis of the Clostridium difficile phage φCD6356, a temperate phage of the Siphoviridae family

Gene

Volumn 462, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 34-43

  Horgan, Marianne ^a,b   O'Sullivan, Orla ^a   Coffey, Aidan ^d   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^c,d   van Sinderen, Douwe ^c,d   McAuliffe, Olivia ^a   Ross, R Paul ^a,c  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Lysogenic; Protein; Sequence; Sfi21

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENOME; OPEN READING FRAMES; SIPHOVIRIDAE; SYNTENY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; MIRIDAE; POSIBACTERIA; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 77954213225     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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