Induction of competence for genetic transformation by antibiotics: Convergent evolution of stress responses in distant bacterial species lacking SOS?

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 570-576

  Charpentier, Xavier ^a   Polard, Patrice ^b,c   Claverys, Jean Pierre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BICOZAMYCIN; BLEOMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; HYDROXYUREA; KANAMYCIN; MITOMYCIN C; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; RIFAMPICIN; SOS PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LIFESTYLE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STRESS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WILD TYPE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84868153016     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2012.08.001     Document Type: Review

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