| Literature DB >> 12644508 |
Virginia Obregón1, José L García, Ernesto García, Rubens López, Pedro García.
Abstract
The genome of MM1 (40,248 bp), a temperate bacteriophage from the Spain(23F)-1 multiresistant epidemic clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae, is organized in 53 open reading frames (ORFs) and in at least five functional clusters. Bioinformatic and N-terminal amino acid sequence analyses enabled the assignment of possible functions to 26 ORFs. Analyses comparing the MM1 genome with those of other bacteriophages revealed similarities, mainly with genomes of phages infecting gram-positive bacteria, which suggest recent exchange of genes between species colonizing the same habitat.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12644508 PMCID: PMC151507 DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.7.2362-2368.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490