Phenotype of htgA (mbiA), a recently evolved orphan gene of Escherichia coli and Shigella, completely overlapping in antisense to yaaW

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-64

  Fellner, Lea ^a   Bechtel, Niklas ^a   Witting, Michael A ^b   Simon, Svenja ^c   Schmitt Kopplin, Philippe ^a,b   Keim, Daniel ^c   Scherer, Siegfried ^a   Neuhaus, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional characterization; htgA yaaW; Overlapping genes

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HTGA GENE; KLEBSIELLA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVERLAPPING GENE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFYING SELECTION; SHIGELLA; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; YAAW GENE;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KLEBSIELLA; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA;

FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; HTGA-YAAW; OVERLAPPING GENES;

BIOFILMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; METABOLOME; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SHIGELLA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84891830178     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12288     Document Type: Letter

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