Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium longum GT15: Identification and Characterization of Unique and Global Regulatory Genes

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 819-834

  Zakharevich, Natalia V ^a   Averina, Olga V ^a   Klimina, Ksenia M ^a   Kudryavtseva, Anna V ^b   Kasianov, Artem S ^a   Makeev, Vsevolod J ^a,b   Danilenko, Valery N ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Genome sequencing; Probiotic genes; Stress response genes; Unique genes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84942551776     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-015-0603-x     Document Type: Article

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