DNA phosphorothioation is widespread and quantized in bacterial genomes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2963-2968

  Wang, Lianrong ^a,b,c   Chen, Shi ^b,c   Vergin, Kevin L ^d   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^d   Chan, Simon W ^a   DeMott, Michael S ^a   Taghizadeh, Koli ^a   Cordero, Otto X ^a   Cutler, Michael ^a   Timberlake, Sonia ^a   Alm, Eric J ^a   Polz, Martin F ^a   Pinhassi, Jarone ^e   Deng, Zixin ^b,c   Dedon, Peter C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioanalytical chemistry; DNA modification; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; PROTEIN DND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VIBRIONACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79952590206     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017261108     Document Type: Article

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