Evolutionary paths of streptococcal and staphylococcal superantigens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Okumura, Kayo ^a,d   Shimomura, Yumi ^a   Murayama, Somay Y ^b,e   Yagi, Junji ^c   Ubukata, Kimiko ^b   Kirikae, Teruo ^a   Miyoshi Akiyama, Tohru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayes MCMC; Fenome comparison; Staphylococcus; Streptococcus; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; SAG GENE; SELW GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMEZ GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPEG GENE; SSL GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOTOXINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERANTIGENS; SYNTENY;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84865055053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-404     Document Type: Article

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