Cellular variability of RpoS expression underlies subpopulation activation of an integrative and conjugative element

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Miyazaki, Ryo ^a   Minoia, Marco ^a   Pradervand, Nicolas ^a   Sulser, Sandra ^a   Reinhard, Friedrich ^a   van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTEGRASE; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRATIVE AND CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS KNACKMUSSII; REPORTER GENE; RPOS GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTEGRASES; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 84864600754     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002818     Document Type: Article

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