Adaptation of pathogenic E. coli to various niches: Genome flexibility is the key

Genome Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages 110-125

  Brzuszkiewicz, E ^a,b   Gottschalk, G ^a   Ron, E ^c   Hacker, J ^b,d   Dobrindt, U ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BOR PROTEIN; COLICIN; PROTEIN MUTS; SERINE; SHIGA TOXIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; SPACER DNA; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; INTEGRON; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT; MENINGITIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77955344007     PISSN: 16609263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000235766     Document Type: Review

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