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SUBMITTER: Path2Models project
PROVIDER: BMID000000142656 | biostudies-other |
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): 24180668
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

Journal of bacteriology 20111001 19
The chemolithoautotrophic betaproteobacterium Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis belongs to the family Alcaligenaceae and is phylogenetically closely related to pathogens such as Taylorella and Bordetella species. While a complete inorganic sulfur oxidation gene cluster, soxCDYZAXWB, is present in its genome, pathogenicity islands or genes associated with virulence, disease, cellular invasion, and/or intracellular resistance are completely absent. ...[more]