Neisseria meningitidis is structured in clades associated with restriction modification systems that modulate homologous recombination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4494-4499

  Budroni, Sonia ^a   Siena, Emilio ^a   Dunning Hotopp, Julie C ^b   Seib, Kate L ^a   Serruto, Davide ^a   Nofroni, Chiara ^a   Comanducci, Maurizio ^a   Riley, David R ^b   Daugherty, Sean C ^b   Angiuoli, Samuel V ^b   Covacci, Antonello ^a   Pizza, Mariagrazia ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^c   Tettelin, Hervé ^b   Medini, Duccio ^a  

^a NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meningococcus; Pan genome; Phylogenetic clades; Population structure and dynamics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CLADISTICS; COMMENSAL; DNA CLEAVAGE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 79952711441     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019751108     Document Type: Article

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