Bacteriophage predation promotes serovar diversification in Listeria monocytogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-46

  Eugster, Marcel R ^a   Morax, Laurent S ^a   Hüls, Vanessa J ^a   Huwiler, Simona G ^a   Leclercq, Alexandre ^b   Lecuit, Marc ^b   Loessner, Martin J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; CARBOHYDRATE ANTIGEN; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PHOSPHATE; RHAMNOSE; RIBITOL; THYMIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE SUGAR; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; TEICHOIC ACID; THYMIDINE DIPHOSPHATE RHAMNOSE;

ADSORPTION; ALLELE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLCNACYLATION GENE; GLYCOSYLATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LMO1080 GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RMLACBD GENE; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WTA RHAMNOSYLATION GENE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL WALL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC VARIATION; GLYCOSYLATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE SUGARS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RHAMNOSE; SEROGROUP; SEROTYPING; TEICHOIC ACIDS; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 84932193958     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13009     Document Type: Article

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