Affiliation:
1. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Abstract
Many members of the phylum
Firmicutes
(
Bacillota
) are capable of producing endospores, which enhance the survival of important Gram-positive pathogens that cause such diseases as anthrax, botulism, colitis, gas gangrene, and tetanus. We show that the core set of sporulation genes, defined previously through genome comparisons of several bacilli and clostridia, is conserved in a wide variety of sporeformers from several distinct lineages of
Firmicutes
.
Funder
NIH Intramural Research Program at the National Library of Medicine
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
19 articles.
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