A new perspective on lysogeny: Prophages as active regulatory switches of bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 641-650

  Feiner, Ron ^a   Argov, Tal ^a   Rabinovich, Lev ^a   Sigal, Nadejda ^a   Borovok, Ilya ^a   Herskovits, Anat A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; GENE CONVERSION; LYSOGENIZATION; MUTATOR GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHAGOSOMES; PROPHAGES; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84942035103     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3527     Document Type: Review

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