NilD CRISPR RNA contributes to Xenorhabdus nematophila colonization of symbiotic host nematodes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1026-1042

  Veesenmeyer, Jeff L ^a   Andersen, Aaron W ^a   Lu, Xiaojun ^a   Hussa, Elizabeth A ^a   Murfin, Kristen E ^a   Chaston, John M ^a,c   Dillman, Adler R ^b,d   Wassarman, Karen M ^a   Sternberg, Paul W ^b   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Department of Entomology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PROTEIN CAS3; PROTEIN CAS6E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAS6E GENE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NEMATODE; NILD GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEINERNEMA ANATOLIENSE; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA WEBSTERI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RHABDITIDA; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RHABDITIDA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 84906939428     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12715     Document Type: Article

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