The hidden life of integrative and conjugative elements

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 512-537

  Delavat, François ^a   Miyazaki, Ryo ^b   Carraro, Nicolas ^a   Pradervand, Nicolas ^a   van der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

bistability; cellular differentiation; fitness cost; horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ELEMENT; INTEGRATIVE ELEMENT; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONJUGATIVE PLASMID; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; LIFE; LIFESTYLE; NOMENCLATURE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS;

EID: 85037563627     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/FEMSRE/FUX008     Document Type: Review

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