Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of lineages I, II, and III strains of Listeria monocytogenes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hain, Torsten ^a   Ghai, Rohit ^a   Billion, André ^a   Kuenne, Carsten T ^a   Steinweg, Christiane ^a   Izar, Benjamin ^a   Mohamed, Walid ^a   Mraheil, Mobarak A ^a   Domann, Eugen ^a   Schaffrath, Silke ^a   Kärst, Uwe ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^c   Oehm, Sebastian ^c   Pühler, Alfred ^c   Merkl, Rainer ^d   Vorwerk, Sonja ^e   Glaser, Philippe ^f   Garrido, Patricia ^f   Rusniok, Christophe ^f   Buchrieser, Carmen ^f   Goebel, Werner ^g   Chakraborty, Trinad ^a   more..

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e Febit Biomed GmbH   (Germany)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Comparative transcriptomics; Flagella; Gene decay; Isogenic deletion mutants; Lineage; Listeria monocytogenes; Monocin; Murine infection; Prophage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMA GENE; INLB GENE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLAGELLIN; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRULENCE;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE;

EID: 84862183901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-144     Document Type: Article

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