In silico analysis of bacterial arsenic islands reveals remarkable synteny and functional relatedness between arsenate and phosphate

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Li, Hang ^a   Li, Mingshun ^a   Huang, Yinyan ^a   Rensing, Christopher ^b   Wang, Gejiao ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AioBA; Arsenic islands; Arsenite oxidase; Phosphorus; Synteny

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; PHOSPHATE;

ACR3 OPERON; AIOBA GENE; AIOXSR GENE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSB OPERON; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA 16S GENE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHNC1 OPERON; PSTS1 OPERON; REGULATOR GENE; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84890257986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00347     Document Type: Article

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