The Listeria transcriptional landscape from saprophytism to virulence (original) (raw)

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to E. Charpentier and the members of her group for providing the RACE protocol. We thank L. Frangeul for helping with L. monocytogenes annotation files. J.J. is supported by the Swedish Research Council grants K2008-58X-15144-05-3 and 621-2006-4450 and EU (BacRNA 2005 Contract N° 018618). Work in the laboratory of P.C. received financial support from Institut Pasteur (GPH 9), Inserm, INRA, EU (BacRNA 2005-018618), ANR (ANR-05-MIIM-026-01) and ERC (Advanced Grant 233348). A.T.-A. was an EMBO long-term fellow. P.C. is an international research scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Author Contributions P.C. planned the project. A.T.-A., O.D., M.L. and P.C. designed the research. A.T.-A., O.D., G.N., N.S., H.G.-R., D.B., E.L., J.G., T.T., K.V., M.-A.N., G.S. and M.L. performed the experiments. A.T.-A., O.D., M.B., M.V., B.R., J.-Y.C., M.L., J.J. and P.C. analysed the experiments. A.T.-A., O.D. and P.C. wrote the paper and co-authors commented on it.

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1. Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, F-75015 Paris, France
   Alejandro Toledo-Arana, Olivier Dussurget, Nina Sesto, Hélène Guet-Revillet, Damien Balestrino, Marie-Anne Nahori & Pascale Cossart
2. Inserm, U604, F-75015 Paris, France ,
   Alejandro Toledo-Arana, Olivier Dussurget, Georgios Nikitas, Nina Sesto, Hélène Guet-Revillet, Damien Balestrino, Marie-Anne Nahori, Marc Lecuit & Pascale Cossart
3. INRA, USC2020, F-75015 Paris, France ,
   Alejandro Toledo-Arana, Olivier Dussurget, Nina Sesto, Hélène Guet-Revillet, Damien Balestrino, Marie-Anne Nahori & Pascale Cossart
4. Institut Pasteur, G5 Microorganismes et Barrières de l’hôte, F-75015 Paris, France ,
   Georgios Nikitas & Marc Lecuit
5. Inserm, Avenir, U604, F-75015 Paris, France ,
   Georgios Nikitas & Marc Lecuit
6. Department of Molecular Biology,,
   Edmund Loh, Jonas Gripenland, Teresa Tiensuu, Karolis Vaitkevicius & Jörgen Johansson
7. The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden ,
   Edmund Loh, Jonas Gripenland, Teresa Tiensuu, Karolis Vaitkevicius & Jörgen Johansson
8. Institut Pasteur, Génopole, Plate-forme 2, F-75015 Paris, France ,
   Mathieu Barthelemy, Guillaume Soubigou, Béatrice Régnault & Jean-Yves Coppée
9. Institut Pasteur, UP Génétique in silico, F-75015 Paris, France ,
   Massimo Vergassola
10. CNRS, URA2171, F-75015 Paris, France ,
    Massimo Vergassola
11. Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, F-75015 France ,
    Marc Lecuit

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Toledo-Arana, A., Dussurget, O., Nikitas, G. et al. The Listeria transcriptional landscape from saprophytism to virulence.Nature 459, 950–956 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08080

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• Received: 21 March 2009
• Accepted: 27 April 2009
• Published: 17 May 2009
• Issue Date: 18 June 2009
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08080