Regulatory integration of horizontally-transferred genes in bacteria

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4103-4112

  Dorman, Charles J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anti repressor; Bacterial genetics; Bacterial pathogenesis; Bacteriophage; Conjugation; DNA topology; Escherichia coli; Gene silencing; Global regulation of gene expression; H NS; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer; Mobile genetic element; Nucleoid associated protein; Pathogenicity island; Plasmids; Review; RNA chaperone; Salmonella enteric serovar typhimurium; Self transmissible plasmid; Shigella flexneri; StpA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL;

EID: 63849316449     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3515     Document Type: Article

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