The Nocardia cyriacigeorgica GUH-2 genome shows ongoing adaptation of an environmental Actinobacteria to a pathogen's lifestyle

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zoropogui, Anthony ^a   Pujic, Petar ^a   Normand, Philippe ^a   Barbe, Valérie ^c   Belli, Patrick ^b   Graindorge, Arnault ^a   Roche, David ^c   Vallenet, David ^c   Mangenot, Sophie ^c   Boiron, Patrick ^a,b   Rodriguez Nava, Véronica ^a,b   Ribun, Sebastien ^a,b   Richard, Yves ^a,c   Cournoyer, Benoit ^a,c   Blaha, Didier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

COG; Evolution; Insertion sequences; Nocardia cyriacigeorgica; Opportunistic pathogen; Regions of genomic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGINYLGLYCYLPROLINE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYSTEINYLASPARTYLSERINE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINASE; RIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; SIDEROPHORE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMICS; LIFESTYLE; MAMMAL CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONTENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; MAMMALIA; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLOME; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NOCARDIA; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84876666100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-286     Document Type: Article

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