Transfer of noncoding DNA drives regulatory rewiring in Bacteria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 16112-16117

  Oren, Yaara ^a   Smith, Mark B ^a   Johns, Nathan I ^b   Zeevi, Millie Kaplan ^a   Biran, Dvora ^c   Ron, Eliora Z ^c,d   Corander, Jukka ^e   Wang, Harris H ^b   Alm, Eric J ^f   Pupko, Tal ^a  

^a Department of Cell Research and Immunology ^*  (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Core genes; HRT; Regulatory evolution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84909592569     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413272111     Document Type: Article

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