Genomic sequencing-based mutational enrichment analysis identifies motility genes in a genetically intractable gut microbe

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 49, 2016, Pages 14127-14132

  Bae, Sena ^a,b   Mueller, Olaf ^a   Wong, Sandi ^a   Rawls, John F ^a   Valdivia, Raphael H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Gene annotation; Motility; Mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

GUANYLATE CYCLASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; EXIGUOBACTERIUM; EXIGUOBACTERIUM ACETYLICUM; FIRMICUTES; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOST; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; FIRMICUTES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 85002964242     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612753113     Document Type: Article

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