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SUBMITTER: Reiter L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3187416 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reiter Lillian L Tourasse Nicolas J NJ Fouet Agnès A Loll Raphaël R Davison Sophie S Økstad Ole Andreas OA Piehler Armin P AP Kolstø Anne-Brit AB
Journal of bacteriology 20110805 19
The Bacillus cereus group of bacteria is a group of closely related species that are of medical and economic relevance, including B. anthracis, B. cereus, and B. thuringiensis. Bacteria from the Bacillus cereus group encode three large, highly conserved genes of unknown function (named crdA, crdB, and crdC) that are composed of 16 to 35 copies of a repeated domain of 132 amino acids at the protein level. Bioinformatic analysis revealed that there is a phylogenetic bias in the genomic distributio ...[more]