Conjugative DNA transfer induces the bacterial SOS response and promotes antibiotic resistance development through integron activation

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Baharoglu, Zeynep ^a,b   Bikard, David ^a,b   Mazel, Didier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSFER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; STRESS; UPREGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; TIME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; INTEGRONS; LAC OPERON; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 78149442895     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001165     Document Type: Article

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