Selective silencing of foreign DNA with low GC content by the H-NS protein in Salmonella

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5784, 2006, Pages 236-238

  Navarre, William Wiley ^a   Porwollik, Steffen ^b   Wang, Yipeng ^b   McClelland, Michael ^b   Rosen, Henry ^a   Libby, Stephen J ^a   Fang, Ferric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS; NATURAL SCIENCES; PROTEINS;

EXOGENOUS SOURCES; HISTONE-LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN (H-NS); MICROBIAL EVOLUTION; SALMONELLA;

DNA SEQUENCES;

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALMONELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA;

EID: 33746008173     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128794     Document Type: Article

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