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The role of prophage for genome diversification within a clonal lineage of Lactobacillus johnsonii: characterization of the defective prophage LJ771.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2008
Denou Emmanuel, Pridmore Raymond David, Ventura Marco, Pittet Anne-Cécile, Zwahlen Marie-Camille, Berger Bernard, Barretto Caroline, Panoff Jean-Michel, Brüssow Harald
Abstract excerpt
Two independent isolates of the gut commensal Lactobacillus johnsonii were sequenced. These isolates belonged to the same clonal lineage and differed mainly by a 40.8-kb prophage, LJ771, belonging to the Sfi11 phage lineage. LJ771 shares close DNA sequence identity with Lactobacillus gasseri prophages. LJ771 coexists as an integrated prophage and excised circular phage DNA, but phage DNA packaged into...
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