Functional genome analysis of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 reveals type IVb tight adherence (Tad) pili as an essential and conserved host-colonization factor

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

Volumn 108, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 11217-11222

  Motherway, Mary O'Connell ^a,b   Zomer, Aldert ^a   Leahy, Sinead C ^a,b   Reunanen, Justus ^c   Bottacini, Francesca ^a,b,d   Claesson, Marcus J ^a   O'Brien, Frances ^a   Flynn, Kiera ^a   Casey, Patrick G ^a   Munoz, Jose Antonio Moreno ^a   Kearney, Breda ^a   Houston, Aileen M ^a,b   O'Mahony, Caitlin ^a   Higgins, Des G ^e   Shanahan, Fergus ^a,b   Palva, Airi ^c   De Vos, Willem M ^c,f   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a,b   Ventura, Marco ^d   O'Toole, Paul W ^a,b   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fimbriae; Genomics; Prebiotic; Probiotic

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERM-FREE LIFE; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOME; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; MURINAE;

EID: 79960586903     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105380108     Document Type: Article

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