… François Collyn… François Collyn … The major families of proteins identified are
commonly found in both viruses, including F-box proteins (data not shown). …

… amoebophila, the presence of a F O F 1 ATP synthase complex, in addition to a V 1 V 0
ATPase complex conserved in the Chlamydiaceae, enhances its energy production capacity and …

… F. Collyn received a scholar fellowship from the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur de
la Recherche et de … François Collyn and Marie-Annick Léty contributed equally to this work. …

… Finally, four genes belonging to the F-like conjugative DNA transfer operon located on the
genomic island of Protochlamydia amoebophila [31] were also detected in P. acanthamoebae …

… frames and includes (i) the previously described pil operon, encoding a type IV pilus that
contributes to pathogenicity (F. Collyn et al., Infect. Immun. 70:6196-6205, 2002); (ii) a block of …

… Sebbane and F. Collyn received postgraduate scholar fellowships from the Ministère de l'Enseignement
Supérieur de la Recherche et de la Technologie. F. Ewann held a postgraduate …

… Surprisingly, one of them encodes all genes essential for F-like conjugative … F-like operons,
the parachlamydial tra unit is devoted to DNA transfer. A close relatedness of this tra unit to F-…

Background Since its first detection, characterization of R. felis has been a matter of debate,
mostly due to the contamination of an initial R. felis culture by R. typhi. However, the first …

… The plasmid encodes an F-type conjugative system highly similar to 1) that found in the
Pam100G genomic island of Pr. amoebophila UWE25 chromosome, as well as on the plasmid of …

Background The increasing number of completely sequenced bacterial genomes allows
comparing their architecture and genetic makeup. Such new information highlights the crucial …