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Preliminary Transcriptional Analysis of spoT Gene Family and of Membrane Proteins in Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia felis
Author(s) -
ROVERY C,
LA M V,
ROBINEAU S,
MATSUMOTO K,
RENESTO P,
RAOULT D
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1355.011
Subject(s) - rickettsia conorii , rickettsia , biology , felis , gene , genome , spotted fever , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , genetics , medicine , virus , cats
A bstract :Rickettsiae survival implicates adaptation to different environmental conditions. We hypothesized that multiple copies of genes in bacteria with reduced genomes might account for such a process. Transcription of spoT and sca paralogs was thus analyzed in R. conorii and R. felis .
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