Article
Evidence for horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and genetic variation as driving forces of the diversity of haemolytic phenotypes in Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jun 2014
Rivas Amable J, Labella Alejandro M, Borrego Juan J, Lemos Manuel L, Osorio Carlos R
Abstract excerpt
Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae, a marine bacterium that causes infections in marine animals and in humans, produces up to three different haemolysins involved in virulence, which include the pPHDD1 plasmid-encoded damselysin (Dly) and HlyApl , and the chromosome-encoded HlyAch . We screened 45 isolates from different origins, and found a correlation between their haemolytic phenotypes and the...
Topics
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- DNA, Bacterial
- Gene Duplication
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Hemolysin Proteins
- Phenotype
- Photobacterium
- Phylogeny
- Plasmids
- Sequence Analysis, DNA