Transcriptional Frameshifting Rescues Citrobacter rodentium Type VI Secretion by the Production of Two Length Variants from the Prematurely Interrupted tssM Gene

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Gueguen, Erwan ^a,d   Wills, Norma M ^b   Atkins, John F ^b,c   Cascales, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; TSSM1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; ISOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; STOP CODON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTIONAL FRAMESHIFTING; TSSM GENE; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CODON, NONSENSE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 84919663848     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004869     Document Type: Article

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