Genomic features and insights into the biology of Mycoplasma fermentans

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 760-773

  Rechnitzer, Hagai ^a   Brzuszkiewicz, Elzbieta ^b   Strittmatter, Axel ^c   Liesegang, Heiko ^b   Lysnyansky, Inna ^d   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^b   Rottem, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^d KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; GRPE PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN DNAJ; PROTEIN DNAK; PROTEIN SECA; RIBOSOME RNA; SECD PROTEIN; SECE PROTEIN; SECG PROTEIN; SECY PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN; TIG PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YIDC PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA MOBILE; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; MYCOPLASMA SYNOVIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79952275294     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.043208-0     Document Type: Article

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