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Genetic Analysis of Two Bile Salt Hydrolase Activities in Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM (with Olivia McAuliffe and Todd R. Klaenhammer), Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2005)

Two genes, bshA and bshB, encoding bile salt hydrolase enzymes (EC 3.5.1.24) were identified in...

 

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Complete genome sequence of the probiotic lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM (with Eric Altermann, W. Michael Russell, M. Andrea Azcarate- Peril, Rodolphe Barrangou, B. Logan Buck, Olivia McAuliffe, Nicole Souther, Alleson Dobson, Tri Duong, Michael Callanan, Sonja Lick, Alice Hamrick, and Todd R. Klaenhammer), Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America (2005)

Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM is a probiotic bacterium that has been produced commercially since 1972. The...

 

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Identification and phenotypic characterization of the cell-division protein CdpA (with Eric Altermann, B. Logan Buck, and Todd R. Klaenhammer), Gene (2004)

Analysis of the automated computer annotation of the early draft phase genome of Lactobacillus acidophilus...

 

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Application of Genotypic and Phenotypic Analyses to Commerical Probiotic Strain Identity and Relatedness (with P.S.M. Yeung, C. L. Kitts, and P. Tong), Journal of Applied Microbiology (2004)

Aims: The objective of this study was to generate strain-specific genomic patterns of a bank...

 

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Complete Genomic Sequence of Bacteriophage B3, a Mu-Like Phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (with Michael D. Braid, Jennifer L. Silhavy, Christopher L. Kitts, and Martha M. Howe), Journal of Bacteriology (2004)

Bacteriophage B3 is a transposable phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this report, we present the...