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Complete genome sequence of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain MC58.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 10 Mar 2000
Tettelin H, Saunders N J, Heidelberg J, Jeffries A C, Nelson K E, Eisen J A, Ketchum K A, Hood D W, Peden J F, Dodson R J, Nelson W C, Gwinn M L, DeBoy R, Peterson J D, Hickey E K, Haft D H, Salzberg S L, White O, Fleischmann R D, Dougherty B A, Mason T, Ciecko A, Parksey D S, Blair E, Cittone H, Clark E B, Cotton M D, Utterback T R, Khouri H, Qin H, Vamathevan J, Gill J, Scarlato V, Masignani V, Pizza M, Grandi G, Sun L, Smith H O, Fraser C M, Moxon E R, Rappuoli R, Venter J C
Abstract excerpt
The 2,272,351-base pair genome of Neisseria meningitidis strain MC58 (serogroup B), a causative agent of meningitis and septicemia, contains 2158 predicted coding regions, 1158 (53.7%) of which were assigned a biological role. Three major islands of horizontal DNA transfer were identified; two of these contain genes encoding proteins involved in pathogenicity, and the third island contains coding sequences only...
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