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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2009, p. 6929-6936, Vol. 75, No. 21
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01112-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Comparative Analyses of Prophage-Like Elements Present in Bifidobacterial Genomes{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Marco Ventura,1* Francesca Turroni,1 Gipsi Lima-Mendez,2 Elena Foroni,1 Aldert Zomer,3 Sabrina Duranti,1 Vanessa Giubellini,1 Francesca Bottacini,1 Philippe Horvath,4 Rodolphe Barrangou,5 David A. Sela,6 David A. Mills,7 and Douwe van Sinderen3

Department of Genetics, Biology of Microorganisms, Anthropology and Evolution University of Parma, Italy,1 Service de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium,2 Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, Bioscience Institute, National University of Ireland, Western Road, Cork, Ireland,3 Danisco France SAS, Dangé-Saint-Romain, France,4 Danisco USA, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin,5 Microbiology Graduate Group,6 Department of Viticulture and Enology, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Sciences, University of California, Davis, California7

Received 14 May 2009/ Accepted 29 August 2009

So far, only scarce and rather diffuse information is available on bacteriophages infecting members of the genus Bifidobacterium. In the current study, we investigated the genetic organization, phylogenetic relationships, and, in some cases, transcription profiles and inducibility of 19 prophage-like elements present on the individual chromosomes of nine bifidobacterial strains, which represent six different species.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Genetics, Anthropology and Evolution, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11a, 43100 Parma, Italy. Phone: 39-521-905666. Fax: 39-521-905476. E-mail: marco.ventura{at}unipr.it

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 4 September 2009.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2009, p. 6929-6936, Vol. 75, No. 21
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01112-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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