Phasevarion mediated epigenetic gene regulation in Helicobacter pylori

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Srikhanta, Yogitha N ^a,b   Gorrell, Rebecca J ^b,c,d   Steen, Jason A ^e   Gawthorne, Jayde A ^a   Kwok, Terry ^d   Grimmond, Sean M ^e   Robins Browne, Roy M ^b,c   Jennings, Michael P ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODA GENE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; UPREGULATION; ALGORITHM; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 82655180443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027569     Document Type: Article

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