Amoebal endosymbiont Neochlamydia genome sequence illuminates the bacterial role in the defense of the host amoebae against Legionella pneumophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Ishida, Kasumi ^a   Sekizuka, Tsuyoshi ^b   Hayashida, Kyoko ^a   Matsuo, Junji ^a   Takeuchi, Fumihiko ^b   Kuroda, Makoto ^b   Nakamura, Shinji ^c   Yamazaki, Tomohiro ^a   Yoshida, Mitsutaka ^c   Takahashi, Kaori ^c   Nagai, Hiroki ^d   Sugimoto, Chihiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCASE; ANKYRIN; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT DOMAIN PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN OMCB; PROTEIN OMPW; PROTEIN POMS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NEOCHLAMYDIA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLAMYDIA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMOEBA; CHLAMYDIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84899692020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095166     Document Type: Article

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