Affiliation:
1. Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Abstract
ABSTRACT
By analyzing the genomic sequences of 12
Bacteroidales
species, we found that all intestinal species have numerous polysaccharide biosynthesis loci, many with promoters that we demonstrate undergo DNA inversion. This feature is not conserved in the
Bacteroidales
order as a whole, as oral species do not share these genetic features.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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