Evidence for the horizontal transfer of an unusual capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis locus in marine bacteria

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5214-5222

  Nakhamchik, Alina ^b   Wilde, Caroline ^b,c   Chong, Henry ^b   Rowe Magnus, Dean A ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYSACCHARIDE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1 CARBOXYVINYL TRANSFERASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMURAMIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; MARINE BACTERIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARALOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIC ACIDS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 78649972442     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00653-10     Document Type: Article

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