Preliminary transcriptional analysis of spoT gene family and of membrane proteins in Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia felis.
Rickettsiae survival implicates adaptation to different environmental conditions. We hypothesized that multiple copies of genes in bacteria with reduced genomes might account for such a process. Transcription of spoT and sca paralogs was thus analyzed in R. conorii and R. felis.
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D000818:Animals; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005810:Multigene Family; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020114:Rickettsia conorii / Q000235:genetics*; D041161:Rickettsia felis / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D012329:RNA, Bacterial