Horizontal gene transfer and assortative recombination within the Acinetobacter baumannii clinical population provide genetic diversity at the single carO gene, encoding a major outer membrane protein channel

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4736-4748

  Mussi, María Alejandra ^a   Limansky, Adriana S ^a   Relling, Verónica ^a   Ravasi, Pablo ^a   Arakaki, Adrián ^b   Actis, Luis A ^c   Viale, Alejandro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARO PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; ORNITHINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RECOMBINANT GENE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

EID: 80052525210     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01533-10     Document Type: Article

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