Pathogenicity islands and virulence evolution in Listeria

Jose A Vazquez-Boland; Gustavo Dominguez-Bernal; Bruno González Zörn; Jurgen Kreft; Werner Goebel

doi:10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01413-7

Pathogenicity islands and virulence evolution in Listeria

Jose A Vazquez-Boland, Gustavo Dominguez-Bernal, Bruno González Zörn, Jurgen Kreft, Werner Goebel

Deanery of Biomedical Sciences

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Abstract

As in other bacterial pathogens, the virulence determinants of Listeria species are clustered in genomic islands scattered along the chromosome. This review summarizes current knowledge about the structure, distribution and role in pathogenesis of Listeria virulence loci. Hypotheses about the mode of acquisition and evolution of these loci in this group of Gram-positive bacteria are presented and discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	571-84
Number of pages	14
Journal	Microbes and Infection
Volume	3
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01413-7
Publication status	Published - Jun 2001

Keywords

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Bacterial Proteins/classification
Bacterial Proteins/genetics
Bacterial Proteins/physiology
Chromosomes, Bacterial/genetics
Evolution, Molecular
Humans
Listeria/genetics
Listeria/pathogenicity
Listeriosis/microbiology
Molecular Sequence Data
Multigene Family
Virulence/genetics

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Pathogenicity islands and virulence evolution in Listeria

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