Role of Mobile DNA in the Evolution of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis

By Ian T. Paulsen, L. Banerjei, G. Myers, K. Nelson, Rekha Seshadri, Timothy D. Read, Derrick E. Fouts, Jonathan A. Eisen, Steven R. Gill, J. Heidelberg and 22 more. Science, 2003

884 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology

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In Ecology

1. Jacques Ravel
2. U. Hentschel
3. Derrick E. Fouts

In Infectious Diseases

1. C. Stanton
2. H. Wexler

In Molecular Biology

1. Jacques Ravel
2. Jan Kok
3. U. Hentschel
4. Derrick E. Fouts
5. D. van Sinderen
6. Daniel H. Haft
7. M. Gobbetti
8. C. Stanton

Citations in the corpus

• Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms (2004, background): “Antibiotic-resistance islands Antibiotic-resistance determinants are often associated with mobile or transferable genetic elements such as plasmids, integrons and super-integrons, and complex transposon”
• Insights on Evolution of Virulence and Resistance from the Complete Genome Analysis of an Early Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain and a Biofilm-Producing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Strain (2005, methodology): “prediction and gene family identifications were completed by methodology described previously (39).”
• Stress Physiology of Lactic Acid Bacteria (2016, background): “ClpP-interacting Clp ATPases, which in LAB typically include the ClpX, ClpC, and ClpE proteins, can be distinguished by the presence of a ClpP recognition tripeptide (302).”
• Bacteroides: the Good, the Bad, and the Nitty-Gritty (2007, background): “However, the first vancomycinresistant enterococcal strain had a number of DNA elements, apparently of foreign origin, which comprised a quarter of the genome of that strain (186).”
• Increasing biological complexity is positively correlated with the relative genome-wide expansion of non-protein-coding DNA sequences (2003, neutral): “2 470 580070 [80] Pyrobaculum aerophilum 0.12 2587 2200000 [81] Procholorococcus MED4 0.12 1716 1657990 [82] Cloistridium acetobutylicum 0.12 3740 3940880 [83] Enterococcus faecalis 0.12 3182 3218031 [84] Xylella fastidosa 0.12 2782 2679305 [85] Eschelichia coli 0157:H7 0.12 5447 5500000 [86] Eschel”