An H-NS-like stealth protein aids horizontal DNA transmission in bacteria

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5809, 2007, Pages 251-252

  Doyle, Marie ^a   Fookes, Maria ^b   Ivens, Al ^b   Mangan, Michael W ^a   Wain, John ^b   Dorman, Charles J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SFH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; DNA; FITNESS; HOST; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROTEIN; TYPHOID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOVEMENT; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33846511690     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137550     Document Type: Article

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