An Allele of an Ancestral Transcription Factor Dependent on a Horizontally Acquired Gene Product

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Chen, H Deborah ^a,b   Jewett, Mollie W ^a,c   Groisman, Eduardo A ^a,b,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLYCINE; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN PMRA; PROTEIN PMRD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRODUCT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PBGP GENE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PMRA GENE; PMRB GENE; PMRD GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI B; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; POLYMYXIN B; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84872015960     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003060     Document Type: Article

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