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SUBMITTER: Blanc G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2045148 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blanc Guillaume G Ogata Hiroyuki H Robert Catherine C Audic Stéphane S Claverie Jean-Michel JM Raoult Didier D
Genome research 20071004 11
Rickettsia massiliae is a tick-borne obligate intracellular alpha-proteobacteria causing spotted fever in humans. Here, we present the sequence of its genome, comprising a 1.3-Mb circular chromosome and a 15.3-kb plasmid. The chromosome exhibits long-range colinearity with the other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia genomes, except for a large fragment specific to R. massiliae that contains 14 tra genes presumably involved in pilus formation and conjugal DNA transfer. We demonstrate that the tra re ...[more]