An Operon of Three Transcriptional Regulators Controls Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEclc in Pseudomonas knackmussii B13

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Pradervand, Nicolas ^a   Sulser, Sandra ^a   Delavat, François ^a   Miyazaki, Ryo ^a,b   Lamas, Iker ^a   van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH INHIBITION; INTEGRATIVE AND CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; MARR GENE; MFSR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS KNACKMUSSII B13; REGULATOR GENE; TCIR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903460610     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004441     Document Type: Article

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