Combining Shigella Tn-seq data with gold-standard E. coli gene deletion data suggests rare transitions between essential and non-essential gene functionality

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Freed, Nikki E ^a,b   Bumann, Dirk ^b   Silander, Olin K ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

E. coli; Evolution; Gene essentiality; Shigella; Tn seq

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SHIGELLA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84984986357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0818-0     Document Type: Article

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