Genome sequences of Mycoplasma alligatoris A21JP2T and Mycoplasma crocodyli MP145T.
J Bacteriol, 2011/6;193(11):2892-3.
Brown DR[1], Farmerie WG, May M, Benders GA, Durkin AS, Hlavinka K, Hostetler J, Jackson J, Johnson J, Miller RH, Paralanov V, Radune D, Szczypinski B, Glass JI
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PMID: 21460083DOI: 10.1128/JB.00309-11
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Abstract
Mycoplasma alligatoris and Mycoplasma crocodyli are closely related siblings, one being highly virulent and the other relatively attenuated. We compared their genomes to better understand the mechanisms and origins of M. alligatoris' remarkable virulence amid a clade of harmless or much less virulent species. Although its chromosome was refractory to closure, M. alligatoris differed most notably by its complement of sialidases and other genes of the N-acetylneuraminate scavenging and catabolism pathway.
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DNA, Bacterial; Genome, Bacterial; Metabolic Networks and Pathways; Molecular Sequence Data; Mycoplasma; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Virulence
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