Rumen cellulosomics: Divergent fiber-degrading strategies revealed by comparative genome-wide analysis of six ruminococcal strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Dassa, Bareket ^a   Borovok, Ilya ^b   Ruimy Israeli, Vered ^a   Lamed, Raphael ^b   Flint, Harry J ^c   Duncan, Sylvia H ^c   Henrissat, Bernard ^d   Coutinho, Pedro ^d   Morrison, Mark ^e,f   Mosoni, Pascale ^g   Yeoman, Carl J ^h   White, Bryan A ⁱ   Bayer, Edward A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CEMAGREF   (France)

^h MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COHESIN; DOCKERIN; SCAFFOLDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLULOSOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RUMINANT STOMACH; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RUMINOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLULOSE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; RUMINOCOCCUS;

EID: 84903755330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099221     Document Type: Article

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