The interplay of restriction-modification systems with mobile genetic elements and their prokaryotic hosts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 10618-10631

  Oliveira, Pedro H ^a,b   Touchon, Marie ^a,b   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; INTEGRON; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; RESTRICTION MODIFICATION SYSTEM; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PROPHAGE;

PROKARYOTA;

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PROPHAGES;

EID: 84921329937     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku734     Document Type: Article

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