Cronobacter, the emergent bacterial pathogen Enterobacter sakazakii comes of age; MLST and whole genome sequence analysis [PDF]
Background: Following the association of Cronobacter spp. to several publicized fatal outbreaks in neonatal intensive care units of meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 requested the establishment of a ...
Dickins, B, Forsythe, SJ, Jolley, KA
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Bacterial protein interaction networks: connectivity is ruled by gene conservation, essentiality and function [PDF]
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks are the backbone of all processes in living cells. In this work we relate conservation, essentiality and functional repertoire of a gene to the connectivity $k$ of the corresponding protein in the PPI networks ...
Cimini, Giulio +2 more
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Genomics and Bacterial Metabolism [PDF]
The field of bacterial metabolism and physiology is arguably the oldest in microbiology. Much of our understanding of biological processes and molecular paradigms has its roots In early studies of prokaryotic physiology. After a period of declining interest in metabolic studies (prompted by the insurgence of molecular techniques), genomic technologies ...
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Dynamic bacterial genome organization [PDF]
Recently completed projects of sequencing chromosomal fragments and entire chromosomes, as well as physical mapping of genomes, have opened novel inroads to the understanding of the biology of bacterial genomes. From these studies one may draw some conclusions.
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Discovery of thermophilic Bacillales using reduced-representation genotyping for identification
Background This study demonstrates the use of reduced-representation genotyping to provide preliminary identifications for thermophilic bacterial isolates.
Berenice Talamantes-Becerra +3 more
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The infinitely many genes model with horizontal gene transfer
The genome of bacterial species is much more flexible than that of eukaryotes. Moreover, the distributed genome hypothesis for bacteria states that the total number of genes present in a bacterial population is greater than the genome of every single ...
Baumdicker, Franz, Pfaffelhuber, Peter
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The emergence and fate of horizontally acquired genes in Escherichia coli [PDF]
Bacterial species, and even strains within species, can vary greatly in their gene contents and metabolic capabilities. We examine the evolution of this diversity by assessing the distribution and ancestry of each gene in 13 sequenced isolates of ...
Marri, P.R. +2 more
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16S ribosomal RNA currently represents the most important target of study in bacterial ecology. Its use for the description of bacterial diversity is, however, limited by the presence of variable copy numbers in bacterial genomes and sequence variation ...
Tomáš Větrovský, Petr Baldrian
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Bacterial genome reductions: Tools, applications, and challenges
Bacterial cells are widely used to produce value-added products due to their versatility, ease of manipulation, and the abundance of genome engineering tools. However, the efficiency of producing these desired biomolecules is often hindered by the cells’
Nicole LeBlanc +2 more
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A study on the correlation of nucleotide skews and the positioning of the origin of replication: different modes of replication in bacterial species [PDF]
Deviations from Chargaff's 2nd parity rule, according to which A∼T and G∼C in single stranded DNA, have been associated with replication as well as with transcription in prokaryotes. Based on observations regarding mainly the transcription-replication co-
Almirantis, Yannis +1 more
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