Functional screening of a metagenomic library reveals operons responsible for enhanced intestinal colonization by gut commensal microbes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3829-3838

  Yoon, Mi Young ^a   Lee, Kang Mu ^a   Yoon, Yujin ^a,b   Go, Junhyeok ^a,b   Park, Yongjin ^a   Cho, Yong Joon ^d   Tannock, Gerald W ^e   Yoon, Sang Sun ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Microbiology ^*  (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d ChunLab Inc   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME LIBRARIES; DNA SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; FUNCTIONAL SCREENING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM; METAGENOMIC LIBRARIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS;

CLONING; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALS;

BACTERIA;

PRIMER DNA;

COLONIZATION; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARGE INTESTINE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINE, LARGE; METAGENOME; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 84878554760     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00581-13     Document Type: Article

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