Epigenetic switches: Can infidelity govern fate in microbes?

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 212-217

  Satory, Dominik ^a   Gordon, Alasdair JE ^a   Halliday, Jennifer A ^a   Herman, Christophe ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CODON; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; PRIONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79954524173     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.12.004     Document Type: Review

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