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Similarity and differences in the Lactobacillus acidophilus group identified by polyphasic analysis and comparative genomics.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2007
Berger Bernard, Pridmore R David, Barretto Caroline, Delmas-Julien Françoise, Schreiber Kerstin, Arigoni Fabrizio, Brüssow Harald
Abstract excerpt
A set of lactobacilli were investigated by polyphasic analysis. Multilocus sequence analysis, DNA typing, microarray analysis, and in silico whole-genome alignments provided a remarkably consistent pattern of similarity within the Lactobacillus acidophilus complex. On microarray analysis, 17 and 5% of the genes from Lactobacillus johnsonii strain NCC533 represented variable and strain-specific genes,...
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