Genomic and functional analyses of Rhodococcus equi phages ReqiPepy6, ReqiPoco6, ReqiPine5, and ReqiDocB7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 669-683

  Summer, E J ^a   Liu, M ^b   Gill, J J ^a   Grant, M ^b   Chan Cortes, T N ^a   Ferguson, L ^a   Janes, C ^a   Lange, K ^a   Bertoli, M ^a   Moore, C ^a   Orchard, R C ^a   Cohen, N D ^a,b   Young, R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENCODED PROTEINS; FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATION; GENES ENCODING; GENOME ORGANIZATION; HOST STRAIN; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LYSATES; LYSIS PROTEINS; MYCOLATE; PROPHAGES; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TRANS-MEMBRANE DOMAINS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES;

PROTEINS;

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; DATA SET; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; GENE ORDER; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 79551473439     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01952-10     Document Type: Article

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