The transposon-like correia elements encode numerous strong promoters and provide a potential new mechanism for phase variation in the meningococcus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Siddique, Azeem ^a   Buisine, Nicolas ^b   Chalmers, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSPOSON; BIOLOGY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79851490742     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001277     Document Type: Article

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