Massive gene acquisitions in Mycobacterium indicus pranii provide a perspective on mycobacterial evolution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10832-10850

  Saini, Vikram ^a   Raghuvanshi, Saurabh ^a   Khurana, Jitendra P ^a   Ahmed, Niyaz ^b   Hasnain, Seyed E ^c,d   Tyagi, Anil K ^a   Tyagi, Akhilesh K ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^d INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450; HEMERYTHRIN; PROTEIN MIP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MIP GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INDICUS PRANII; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMERYTHRIN; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PLASMIDS; PROTEOME; SELECTION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;

EID: 84870576883     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks793     Document Type: Article

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