Ability of phages to infect Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex species through acquisition of different pectate lyase depolymerase domains

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 5060-5077

  Oliveira, Hugo ^a   Costa, Ana R ^a   Konstantinides, Nico ^a,b   Ferreira, Alice ^a   Akturk, Ergun ^a   Sillankorva, Sanna ^a   Nemec, Alexandr ^c   Shneider, Mikhail ^d   Dötsch, Andreas ^e,f   Azeredo, Joana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^d SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PECTATE LYASE; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ASIA; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PODOVIRIDAE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; PODOVIRIDAE; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; PROTEIN DOMAINS; VIRION;

EID: 85037327119     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13970     Document Type: Article

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