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Phylogenetic and Protein Sequence Analysis of Bacterial Chemoreceptors

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Bacterial Chemosensing

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1729))

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Identifying chemoreceptors in sequenced bacterial genomes, revealing their domain architecture, inferring their evolutionary relationships, and comparing them to chemoreceptors of known function become important steps in genome annotation and chemotaxis research. Here, we describe bioinformatics procedures that enable such analyses, using two closely related bacterial genomes as examples.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by NIH grant R35 GM122588 to D.R.O and R01 GM072285 to I.B.Z.

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  1. Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Davi R. Ortega

  2. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Igor B. Zhulin

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Igor B. Zhulin

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Correspondence to Davi R. Ortega or Igor B. Zhulin .

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  1. Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    Michael D. Manson

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Ortega, D.R., Zhulin, I.B. (2018). Phylogenetic and Protein Sequence Analysis of Bacterial Chemoreceptors. In: Manson, M. (eds) Bacterial Chemosensing. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1729. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7577-8_29

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