Analysis of a novel 8.9kb cryptic plasmid from Bacteroides uniformis, its long-term stability and spread within human microbiota

Plasmid

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-159

  Shkoporov, Andrei N ^a   Khokhlova, Ekaterina V ^a   Kulagina, Elena V ^a   Smeianov, Vladimir V ^a   Kuchmiy, Anna A ^a   Kafarskaya, Lyudmila I ^a   Efimov, Boris A ^a  

^a PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Addiction module; Bacteroides; Conjugation; Intestinal microbiota; Plasmid; Theta replication

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES DISTASONIS; BACTEROIDES INTESTINALIS; BACTEROIDES UNIFORMIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; MICROFLORA; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTEROIDES; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES UNIFORMIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84873522318     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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