Transcription of AAT·ATT Triplet Repeats in Escherichia coli Is Silenced by H-NS and IS1E Transposition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Pan, Xuefeng ^a,b,c   Liao, Yuanhong ^a   Liu, Yunmeng ^a   Chang, Peng ^a   Liao, Lingni ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Li, Hongquan ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSE; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 78650085850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014271     Document Type: Article

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