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Genomic analysis reveals that Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence is combinatorial

Daniel G Lee1,2,3 email, Jonathan M Urbach1,2 email, Gang Wu1,2 email, Nicole T Liberati1,2 email, Rhonda L Feinbaum1,2 email, Sachiko Miyata1,2 email, Lenard T Diggins4 email, Jianxin He5,6 email, Maude Saucier5,6,7 email, Eric Déziel5,6,8 email, Lisa Friedman5,9 email, Li Li10 email, George Grills10,11 email, Kate Montgomery10 email, Raju Kucherlapati10 email, Laurence G Rahme5,6 email and Frederick M Ausubel1,2 email

1Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA

2Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

3Current address: Microbia, Inc., Bent Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02141, USA

4Envivo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Arsenal Street, Watertown, Massachusetts, 02472, USA

5Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115. USA

6Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA

7Current address: Université de Montréal, Station Centre-ville, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Canada

8Current address: INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, boul. des Prairies, Laval, Quebec, H7V 1B7, Canada

9Current address: Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Hayden Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts, 02421, USA

10Harvard Medical School - Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics, Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

11Current address: Core Facilities, Cornell University, Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, New York, 14850, USA

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R90doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r90

Published: 12 October 2006

Subject areas: Microbiology and parasitology, Genome studies


Additional files

Additional data file 1:

Summary of supplementary methods.

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Additional data file 2:

A table of PA14 gene annotations.

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Additional data file 3:

The percentage of PA14 and PAO1 genes corresponding to each of 28 functional categories (shown for both the whole genome and strain-specific genes as described in Additional data file 4).

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Additional data file 4:

Summary of properties of PA14-specific and PAO1-specific regions.

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Additional data file 5:

Properties of oligos found on the genotyping microarray.

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Additional data file 6:

Microarray genotyping data for the 20 strains examined in this study (normalized average data and log2 ratio of normalized averages).

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Additional data file 7:

Coordinates of regions in PA14 or PAO1 that are common to four sequenced P. aeruginosa strains (PA14, PAO1, and two CF isolates: 2192 and C3719) and therefore comprise a putative P. aeruginosa core genome.

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