Xenogeneic Silencing and Its Impact on Bacterial Genomes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 199-213

  Singh, Kamna ^a   Milstein, Joshua N ^b   Navarre, William Wiley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; H NS; Horizontal gene transfer; Nucleoid associated proteins; Xenogeneic silencing

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; LSR2 PROTEIN; MVAT PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; H-NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA BINDING; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84986557829     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-102215-095301     Document Type: Review

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