Under-representation of intrinsic terminators across bacterial genomic islands: Rho as a principal regulator of xenogenic DNA expression

Gene

Volumn 508, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-228

  Mitra, Anirban ^a   Nagaraja, Valakunja ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Hairpin; Horizontal gene transfer; Intrinsic termination; Pathogenicity; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RHO FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; RHO FACTOR; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 84865716910     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.07.064     Document Type: Article

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