Identification of a novel conjugative plasmid in mycobacteria that requires both type IV and type VII secretion

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Ummels, Roy ^a   Abdallah, Abdallah M ^b   Kuiper, Vincent ^a   Aâjoud, Anouar ^a   Sparrius, Marion ^a   Naeem, Raeece ^b   Spaink, Herman P ^c   Bitter, Wilbert ^a,e   Pain, Arnab ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GILVUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HOLSATICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARASCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TRIVIALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; MYCOBACTERIUM YONGONENSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE VII SECRETION SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908433386     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01744-14     Document Type: Article

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