Defense Islands in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes and Prediction of Novel Defense Systems

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6039-6056

  Makarova, Kira S ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Snir, Sagi ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE ISLAND; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOBILOME ISLAND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEAL VIRUSES; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80055028227     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05535-11     Document Type: Article

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