Comparative analyses of prophage-like elements present in bifidobacterial genomes.
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SUBMITTER: Ventura M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2772436 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
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Comparative analyses of prophage-like elements present in bifidobacterial genomes.
Ventura Marco M Turroni Francesca F Lima-Mendez Gipsi G Foroni Elena E Zomer Aldert A Duranti Sabrina S Giubellini Vanessa V Bottacini Francesca F Horvath Philippe P Barrangou Rodolphe R Sela David A DA Mills David A DA van Sinderen Douwe D
Applied and environmental microbiology 20090904 21
So far, only scarce and rather diffuse information is available on bacteriophages infecting members of the genus Bifidobacterium. In the current study, we investigated the genetic organization, phylogenetic relationships, and, in some cases, transcription profiles and inducibility of 19 prophage-like elements present on the individual chromosomes of nine bifidobacterial strains, which represent six different species. ...[more]
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