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Genomic analysis reveals that Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence is combinatorial

Daniel G Lee3,1,2, Jonathan M Urbach1,2, Gang Wu1,2, Nicole T Liberati1,2, Rhonda L Feinbaum1,2, Sachiko Miyata1,2, Lenard T Diggins4, Jianxin He5,6, Maude Saucier7,5,6, Eric Déziel8,5,6, Lisa Friedman9,5, Li Li10, George Grills10,11, Kate Montgomery10, Raju Kucherlapati10, Laurence G Rahme5,6 and Frederick M Ausubel1,2*

Author Affiliations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Genome Biology 2006, 7:R90 doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-r90

Published: 12 October 2006

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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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