High-temperature adapted primitive Protochlamydia found in Acanthamoeba isolated from a hot spring can grow in immortalized human epithelial HEp-2 cells

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 486-497

  Sampo, Aya ^a   Matsuo, Junji ^a   Yamane, Chikayo ^a   Yagita, Kenji ^b   Nakamura, Shinji ^c   Shouji, Natsumi ^a   Hayashi, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamazaki, Tomohiro ^a   Yoshida, Mitsutaka ^c   Kobayashi, Miho ^a   Ishida, Kasumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE;

RNA 16S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; THERMAL SPRING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIALES; HOT SPRINGS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84893023916     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12266     Document Type: Article

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