Parallel evolution of a type IV secretion system in radiating lineages of the host-restricted bacterial pathogen bartonella

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Engel, Philipp ^a   Salzburger, Walter ^b   Liesch, Marius ^a   Chang, Chao Chin ^c   Maruyama, Soichi ^d   Lanz, Christa ^e   Calteau, Alexandra ^f   Lajus, Aurélie ^f   Médigue, Claudine ^f   Schuster, Stephan C ^g   Dehio, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f DIF   (France)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BARTONELLA; BEP GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BIOLOGY; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; MAMMALIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BARTONELLA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC SPECIATION; HEK293 CELLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79952267635     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001296     Document Type: Article

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