Integrated circuits: How transcriptional silencing and counter-silencing facilitate bacterial evolution

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-13

  Will, W Ryan ^a   Navarre, William W ^b   Fang, Ferric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; H NS NUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL EVOLUTION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; EVOLUTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE STRUCTURE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL;

EID: 84910091088     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.10.005     Document Type: Review

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