Silencing by H-NS Potentiated the Evolution of Salmonella

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ali, Sabrina S ^a   Soo, Jeremy ^a   Rao, Chitong ^a   Leung, Andrea S ^a   Ngai, David Hon Man ^a   Ensminger, Alexander W ^a   Navarre, William Wiley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; H-NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; EVOLUTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA PATHOGENICITY ISLAND 1; STPA GENE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

SALMONELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MUTATION; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84912143308     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004500     Document Type: Article

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