Defense Islands in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes and Prediction of Novel Defense Systems

Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes

(2012) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Balancing at survival's edge: the structure and adaptive benefits of prokaryotic toxin–antitoxin partners

(2011) Tim R Blower et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems

(2011) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for an evolutionary antagonism between Mrr and Type III modification systems

(2011) M. Tesfazgi Mebrhatu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

IS-Linked Movement of a Restriction-Modification System

(2011) Noriko Takahashi et al.   PLoS One

Integrons

(2010) Guillaume Cambray et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

The phage-host arms race: Shaping the evolution of microbes

(2010) Adi Stern et al.   BIOESSAYS

Interference with histidyl-tRNA synthetase by a CRISPR spacer sequence as a factor in the evolution of Pelobacter carbinolicus

(2010) Muktak Aklujkar et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Toxin–antitoxin systems: why so many, what for?

(2010) Laurence Van Melderen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Conflicts Targeting Epigenetic Systems and Their Resolution by Cell Death: Novel Concepts for Methyl-Specific and Other Restriction Systems

(2010) K. Ishikawa et al.   DNA RESEARCH

The Abi Proteins and Their Involvement in Bacteriocin Self-Immunity

(2010) M. Kjos et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The XBP-Bax1 Helicase-Nuclease Complex Unwinds and Cleaves DNA

(2010) Christophe Rouillon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The CRISPR System: Small RNA-Guided Defense in Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) Fedor V. Karginov et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

(2010) Steve Paterson et al.   NATURE

Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms

(2010) Simon J. Labrie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A putative mobile genetic element carrying a novel type IIF restriction-modification system (PluTI)

(2010) Feroz Khan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome comparison and context analysis reveals putative mobile forms of restriction–modification systems and related rearrangements

(2010) Yoshikazu Furuta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Dali server: conservation mapping in 3D

(2010) Liisa Holm et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Identification of new homologs of PD-(D/E)XK nucleases by support vector machines trained on data derived from profile-profile alignments

(2010) M. Laganeckas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

CRISPR/Cas, the Immune System of Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) P. Horvath et al.   SCIENCE

Self-targeting by CRISPR: gene regulation or autoimmunity?

(2010) Adi Stern et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Great Billion-year War between Ribosome- and Capsid-encoding Organisms (Cells and Viruses) as the Major Source of Evolutionary Novelties

(2009) Patrick Forterre et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Activation and Transfer of the Chromosomal Phage Resistance Mechanism AbiV in Lactococcus lactis

(2009) J. Haaber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are predicted to function as key components of a novel system of defense against mobile genetic elements

(2009) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Structure and function of a novel endonuclease acting on branched DNA substrates

(2009) Bin Ren et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

The MmeI family: type II restriction–modification enzymes that employ single-strand modification for host protection

(2009) Richard D. Morgan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The phage abortive infection system, ToxIN, functions as a protein–RNA toxin–antitoxin pair

(2009) Peter C. Fineran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CRISPR-based adaptive and heritable immunity in prokaryotes

(2009) John van der Oost et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Scaling laws in functional genome content across prokaryotic clades and lifestyles

(2009) Nacho Molina et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

(2009) David M. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Toxin–Antitoxin Systems: More Than Selfish Entities?

(2009) Laurence Van Melderen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolution of complexity in RNA-like replicator systems

(2008) Nobuto Takeuchi et al.   Biology Direct

The elusive object of desire—Interactions of bacteriophages and their hosts

(2008) Sergei Nechaev et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments

(2008) J. E. Koenig et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

HicA of Escherichia coli Defines a Novel Family of Translation-Independent mRNA Interferases in Bacteria and Archaea

(2008) M. G. Jorgensen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Comparative Enzymology in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily to Determine the Catalytic Role of an Active-Site Metal Ion

(2008) Jesse G. Zalatan et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Systematic Survey for Novel Types of Prokaryotic Retroelements Based on Gene Neighborhood and Protein Architecture

(2008) K. K. Kojima et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structural and evolutionary classification of Type II restriction enzymes based on theoretical and experimental analyses

(2008) Jerzy Orlowski et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

ATGC: a database of orthologous genes from closely related prokaryotic genomes and a research platform for microevolution of prokaryotes

(2008) P. S. Novichkov et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

CDD: specific functional annotation with the Conserved Domain Database

(2008) A. Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structure of RapA, a Swi2/Snf2 Protein that Recycles RNA Polymerase During Transcription

(2008) Gary Shaw et al.   STRUCTURE

Cell death upon epigenetic genome methylation: a novel function of methyl-specific deoxyribonucleases

(2008) Eri Fukuda et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY