A role for the bacterial GATC methylome in antibiotic stress survival

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 581-586

  Cohen, Nadia R ^a,b,c   Ross, Christian A ^d   Jain, Saloni ^b,e   Shapiro, Rebecca S ^b,f   Gutierrez, Arnaud ^b,f   Belenky, Peter ^g   Li, Hu ^d   Collins, James J ^a,b,c,e,f,h  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Information Technology   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA ADENINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GATC PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; MEROPENEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRESS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

ADENINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84961391608     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3530     Document Type: Article

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