Ancestral genes can control the ability of horizontally acquired loci to confer new traits

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Chen, H Deborah ^a,b   Jewett, Mollie W ^a,c   Groisman, Eduardo A ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GENE PRODUCT; MAGNESIUM ION; PHOSPHATASE; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN PMRA; PROTEIN PMRB; PROTEIN PMRD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; PHOP PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOQ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PMRA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PMRB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PMRD PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PMRD GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMYXIN B; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79960949841     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002184     Document Type: Article

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