Bacterial Genome Instability

Strategies of Genomic Integration Within Insect-Bacterial Mutualisms

(2016) Jennifer J. Wernegreen   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Horizontal gene transfer in human pathogens

(2013) Mario Juhas   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

mazEF-mediated programmed cell death in bacteria: “What is this?”

(2013) Bhaskar Chandra Mohan Ramisetty et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 1(SPI-1) at Work

(2013) Fengxia Que et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Toxin-antitoxin systems are ubiquitous and versatile modulators of prokaryotic cell fate

(2013) Christopher F. Schuster et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Characterization of the phd-doc and ccd Toxin-Antitoxin Cassettes from Vibrio Superintegrons

(2013) A.-M. Guerout et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Interacting Cra and KdpE Regulators Are Involved in the Expression of Multiple Virulence Factors in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

(2013) J. W. Njoroge et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Diverse Functions of Restriction-Modification Systems in Addition to Cellular Defense

(2013) K. Vasu et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Evasion of killing by human antibody and complement through multiple variations in the surface oligosaccharide ofHaemophilus influenzae

(2013) Sarah E. Clark et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems

(2013) Wenyan Jiang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The Minimal Bacillus subtilis Nonhomologous End Joining Repair Machinery

(2013) Miguel de Vega   PLoS One

Genetic Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Peru and Exploration of Phylogenetic Associations with Drug Resistance

(2013) Patricia Sheen et al.   PLoS One

Surface display of a massively variable lipoprotein by a Legionella diversity-generating retroelement

(2013) D. Arambula et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas9

(2013) P. Mali et al.   SCIENCE

Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

(2013) L. Cong et al.   SCIENCE

Pilus Phase Variation Switches Gonococcal Adherence to Invasion by Caveolin-1-Dependent Host Cell Signaling

(2013) Michaela Faulstich et al.   PLoS Pathogens

CRISPR-Cas systems and RNA-guided interference

(2013) Rodolphe Barrangou   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

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

Molecular musings in microbial ecology and evolution

(2012) Rebecca J Case et al.   Biology Direct

Evolution of variation in presence and absence of genes in bacterial pathways

(2012) Andrew R Francis et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of diversity generating retroelements generated by the program DiGReF

(2012) Thomas Schillinger et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Microbial Lifestyle and Genome Signatures

(2012)   CURRENT GENOMICS

The interconnection between biofilm formation and horizontal gene transfer

(2012) Jonas Stenløkke Madsen et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family from fish-isolatedVibriosencode restriction-modification systems that confer resistance to bacteriophages

(2012) Miguel Balado et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Multiple Pathways of Duplication Formation with and Without Recombination (RecA) in Salmonella enterica

(2012) A. B. Reams et al.   GENETICS

Homing endonucleases: DNA scissors on a mission

(2012) Mohamed Hafez et al.   GENOME

The Infinitely Many Genes Model for the Distributed Genome of Bacteria

(2012) Franz Baumdicker et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

High Expression Hampers Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2012) Chungoo Park et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Bacillus subtilis Conjugative Transposon ICEBs1 Mobilizes Plasmids Lacking Dedicated Mobilization Functions

(2012) C. A. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Noncoding RNAs Binding to the Nucleoid Protein HU in Escherichia coli

(2012) M. Macvanin et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Comparative Analysis of Mobilizable Genomic Islands

(2012) A. Daccord et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Essential Features and Rational Design of CRISPR RNAs that Function with the Cas RAMP Module Complex to Cleave RNAs

(2012) Caryn R. Hale et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Mechanism of Foreign DNA Selection in a Bacterial Adaptive Immune System

(2012) Dipali G. Sashital et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search

(2012) Anthony L. Forget et al.   NATURE

Bacteriophage genes that inactivate the CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system

(2012) Joe Bondy-Denomy et al.   NATURE

Structural, functional and evolutionary relationships between homing endonucleases and proteins from their host organisms

(2012) G. K. Taylor et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A novel non-homologous recombination-mediated mechanism for Escherichia coli unilateral flagellar phase variation

(2012) Bin Liu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Replicative resolution of integron cassette insertion

(2012) Céline Loot et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

CRISPR Interference Directs Strand Specific Spacer Acquisition

(2012) Daan C. Swarts et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptional Regulator PerA Influences Biofilm-Associated, Platelet Binding, and Metabolic Gene Expression in Enterococcus faecalis

(2012) Scott M. Maddox et al.   PLoS One

The Genealogic Tree of Mycobacteria Reveals a Long-Standing Sympatric Life into Free-Living Protozoa

(2012) Otmane Lamrabet et al.   PLoS One

Lateral gene transfer as a support for the tree of life

(2012) S. S. Abby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Memory of viral infections by CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems: Acquisition of new information

(2012) Peter C. Fineran et al.   VIROLOGY

Function and Regulation of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) / CRISPR Associated (Cas) Systems

(2012) Corinna Richter et al.   Viruses-Basel

Spatial Structure and Lamarckian Adaptation Explain Extreme Genetic Diversity at CRISPR Locus

(2012) J. O. Haerter et al.   mBio

Molecular memory of prior infections activates the CRISPR/Cas adaptive bacterial immunity system

(2012) Kirill A. Datsenko et al.   Nature Communications

AbaR7, a Genomic Resistance Island Found in Multidrug-resistantAcinetobacter baumanniiIsolates in Daejeon, Korea

(2012) Ji Youn Sung et al.   Annals of Laboratory Medicine

A Natural System of Chromosome Transfer in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

(2012) Biliana Lesic et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phosphorylcholine Allows for Evasion of Bactericidal Antibody by Haemophilus influenzae

(2012) Sarah E. Clark et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Lateral gene exchanges shape the genomes of amoeba-resisting microorganisms

(2012) Claire Bertelli et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Evolution of microbes and viruses: a paradigm shift in evolutionary biology?

(2012) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Darwin's goldmine is still open: variation and selection run the world

(2012) Patrick Forterre   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

CRISPR-Cas Systems in Bacteria and Archaea: Versatile Small RNAs for Adaptive Defense and Regulation

(2011) Devaki Bhaya et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Bacteria and Archaea

(2011) Yoshihiro Yamaguchi et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Microbial systematics in the post-genomics era

(2011) Beile Gao et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A Contingency Locus inprfAin a Listeria monocytogenes Subgroup Allows Reactivation of the PrfA Virulence Regulator during Infection in Mice

(2011) Toril Lindbäck et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Toxin-Antitoxin Systems Influence Biofilm and Persister Cell Formation and the General Stress Response

(2011) Xiaoxue Wang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Homing endonucleases residing within inteins: evolutionary puzzles awaiting genetic solutions

(2011) Adi Barzel et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs): the hallmark of an ingenious antiviral defense mechanism in prokaryotes

(2011) Sinan Al-Attar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Of woods and webs: possible alternatives to the tree of life for studying genomic fluidity in E. coli

(2011) Julie Beauregard-Racine et al.   Biology Direct

The advantages and disadvantages of horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of the first species

(2011) Aaron A Vogan et al.   Biology Direct

A Rooted Net of Life

(2011) David Williams et al.   Biology Direct

Learning to live together: mutualism between self-splicing introns and their hosts

(2011) David R Edgell et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Home and away- the evolutionary dynamics of homing endonucleases

(2011) Adi Barzel et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Identification, variation and transcription of pneumococcal repeat sequences

(2011) Nicholas J Croucher et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genomic analysis and temperature-dependent transcriptome profiles of the rhizosphere originating strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa M18

(2011) Da-Qiang Wu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Intercellular Nanotubes Mediate Bacterial Communication

(2011) Gyanendra P. Dubey et al.   CELL

CRISPR-based adaptive immune systems

(2011) Michael P Terns et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes

(2011) Ovidiu Popa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Phase variation: how to create and coordinate population diversity

(2011) Marjan W van der Woude   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

Bacterial species may exist, metagenomics reveal

(2011) Alejandro Caro-Quintero et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of Growth Under Selection on Appearance of Chromosomal Mutations inSalmonella enterica

(2011) Semarhy Quiñones-Soto et al.   GENETICS

Molecular Darwinism: The Contingency of Spontaneous Genetic Variation

(2011) W. Arber   Genome Biology and Evolution

Impact of Small Repeat Sequences on Bacterial Genome Evolution

(2011) Nicholas Delihas   Genome Biology and Evolution

Directed networks reveal genomic barriers and DNA repair bypasses to lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes

(2011) O. Popa et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

CRISPR Distribution within the Escherichia coli Species Is Not Suggestive of Immunity-Associated Diversifying Selection

(2011) M. Touchon et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The CRISPR/Cas Immune System Is an Operon Regulated by LeuO, H-NS, and Leucine-Responsive Regulatory Protein in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi

(2011) L. Medina-Aparicio et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Nature and Intensity of Selection Pressure on CRISPR-Associated Genes

(2011) N. Takeuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

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

(2011) K. S. Makarova et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Legionella pneumophila Sequence Type 1/Paris Pulsotype Subtyping by Spoligotyping

(2011) C. Ginevra et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Detecting Highways of Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2011) Mukul S. Bansal et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

GI-type T4SS-mediated horizontal transfer of the 89K pathogenicity island in epidemic Streptococcus suis serotype 2

(2011) Ming Li et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Focusing homologous recombination: pilin antigenic variation in the pathogenic Neisseria

(2011) Laty A. Cahoon et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Regulation of growth and death in Escherichia coli by toxin–antitoxin systems

(2011) Yoshihiro Yamaguchi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems

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

Structuring the bacterial genome: Y1-transposases associated with REP-BIME sequences †

(2011) Bao Ton-Hoang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Excision of an Unstable Pathogenicity Island in Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Is Induced during Infection of Phagocytic Cells

(2011) Tania S. Quiroz et al.   PLoS One

Miniature Transposable Sequences Are Frequently Mobilized in the Bacterial Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola

(2011) Leire Bardaji et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species

(2011) C. Burke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insertion sequence-excision enhancer removes transposable elements from bacterial genomes and induces various genomic deletions

(2011) Masahiro Kusumoto et al.   Nature Communications

A Novel Mechanism of Programmed Cell Death in Bacteria by Toxin–Antitoxin Systems Corrupts Peptidoglycan Synthesis

(2011) Hannes Mutschler et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Loss of Genetic Redundancy in Reductive Genome Evolution

(2011) André G. Mendonça et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Transposon-Like Correia Elements Encode Numerous Strong Promoters and Provide a Potential New Mechanism for Phase Variation in the Meningococcus

(2011) Azeem Siddique et al.   PLoS Genetics

Target Site Recognition by a Diversity-Generating Retroelement

(2011) Huatao Guo et al.   PLoS Genetics

Origin-Dependent Inverted-Repeat Amplification: A Replication-Based Model for Generating Palindromic Amplicons

(2011) Bonita J. Brewer et al.   PLoS Genetics

Integrons

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

CRISPR/Cas System and Its Role in Phage-Bacteria Interactions

(2010) Hélène Deveau et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Polymerases in Nonhomologous End Joining: Building a Bridge over Broken Chromosomes

(2010) Dale A. Ramsden   ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING

Molecular aspects of gene transfer and foreign DNA acquisition in prokaryotes with regard to safety issues

(2010) Matthias Brigulla et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

Gene cassette transcription in a large integron-associated array

(2010) Carolyn A Michael et al.   BMC GENETICS

Identification and characterization of repetitive extragenic palindromes (REP)-associated tyrosine transposases: implications for REP evolution and dynamics in bacterial genomes

(2010) Jaroslav Nunvar et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Correlations Between Bacterial Ecology and Mobile DNA

(2010) Irene L. G. Newton et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

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

Calcium promotes exopolysaccharide phase variation and biofilm formation of the resulting phase variants in the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus

(2010) Katherine L. Garrison-Schilling et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Escherichia coli toxin/antitoxin pair MqsR/MqsA regulate toxin CspD

(2010) Younghoon Kim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prevalence and diversity of insertion sequences in the genome of Bacillus thuringiensis YBT-1520 and comparison with other Bacillus cereus group members

(2010) Ning Qiu et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Genome-wide comparison of cyanobacterial transposable elements, potential genetic diversity indicators

(2010) Shen Lin et al.   GENE

Intergenic Transposable Elements Are Not Randomly Distributed in Bacteria

(2010) Gordon R. Plague   Genome Biology and Evolution

The post-Darwinist rhizome of life

(2010) Didier Raoult   LANCET

Mobility of Plasmids

(2010) C. Smillie et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Acquisition of multidrug resistance transposon Tn6061 and IS6100-mediated large chromosomal inversions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates

(2010) S. Coyne et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The Complexity Hypothesis Revisited: Connectivity Rather Than Function Constitutes a Barrier to Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2010) O. Cohen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Remarkable Abundance and Evolution of Mobile Group II Introns in Wolbachia Bacterial Endosymbionts

(2010) S. Leclercq et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

E. coli SbcCD and RecA Control Chromosomal Rearrangement Induced by an Interrupted Palindrome

(2010) Elise Darmon et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

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

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

A dual function of the CRISPR-Cas system in bacterial antivirus immunity and DNA repair

(2010) Mohan Babu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Envelope stress is a trigger of CRISPR RNA-mediated DNA silencing in Escherichia coli

(2010) Ritsdeliz Perez-Rodriguez et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Transcription, processing and function of CRISPR cassettes in Escherichia coli

(2010) Ksenia Pougach et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Identification and characterization ofE. coliCRISPR-caspromoters and their silencing by H-NS

(2010) Ümit Pul et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

H-NS-mediated repression of CRISPR-based immunity in Escherichia coli K12 can be relieved by the transcription activator LeuO

(2010) Edze R. Westra et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

YeeV is an Escherichia coli toxin that inhibits cell division by targeting the cytoskeleton proteins, FtsZ and MreB

(2010) Qian Tan et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system cleaves bacteriophage and plasmid DNA

(2010) Josiane E. Garneau et al.   NATURE

Self versus non-self discrimination during CRISPR RNA-directed immunity

(2010) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   NATURE

CRISPR interference: RNA-directed adaptive immunity in bacteria and archaea

(2010) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The phage-related chromosomal islands of Gram-positive bacteria

(2010) Richard P. Novick et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2010) Yoshikazu Furuta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Small, Slow and Specialized CRISPR and Anti-CRISPR of Escherichia and Salmonella

(2010) Marie Touchon et al.   PLoS One

DNA tandem repeat instability in the Escherichia coli chromosome is stimulated by mismatch repair at an adjacent CAG{middle dot}CTG trinucleotide repeat

(2010) J. K. Blackwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of phenotypic variability by a threshold-based mechanism underlies bacterial persistence

(2010) Eitan Rotem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An end-joining repair mechanism in Escherichia coli

(2010) R. Chayot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CRISPR-mediated phage resistance and the ghost of coevolution past

(2010) P. F. Vale et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

CRISPR/Cas and Cmr modules, mobility and evolution of adaptive immune systems

(2010) Shiraz A. Shah et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

(2010) L. D. McDaniel et al.   SCIENCE

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

Conditions for the Evolution of Gene Clusters in Bacterial Genomes

(2010) Sara Ballouz et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Early Stage of Bacterial Genome-Reductive Evolution in the Host

(2010) Han Song et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evolution of Genes and Organisms

(2009) Lorraine Olendzenski et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Gene Amplification and Adaptive Evolution in Bacteria

(2009) Dan I. Andersson et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Integron Mobilization Unit as a Source of Mobility of Antibiotic Resistance Genes

(2009) L. Poirel et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Characterization of rrdA, a TetR Family Protein Gene Involved in the Regulation of Secondary Metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor

(2009) X. Ou et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mobilization of a Tn402-Like Class 1 Integron with a Novel Cassette Array via Flanking Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Element-Like Structures

(2009) M. R. Gillings et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?

(2009) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Biology Direct

Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria

(2009) Vicky Merhej et al.   Biology Direct

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Insertion sequence content reflects genome plasticity in strains of the root nodule actinobacterium Frankia

(2009) Derek M Bickhart et al.   BMC GENOMICS

RNA-Guided RNA Cleavage by a CRISPR RNA-Cas Protein Complex

(2009) Caryn R. Hale et al.   CELL

Regulatory RNAs in Bacteria

(2009) Lauren S. Waters et al.   CELL

‘Nothing is permanent but change’†- antigenic variation in persistent bacterial pathogens

(2009) Guy H. Palmer et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial intein-like domains of predatory bacteria: a new domain type characterized in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

(2009) Mally Dori-Bachash et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

Letting Escherichia coli Teach Me About Genome Engineering

(2009) James A. Shapiro   GENETICS

Deletional Bias across the Three Domains of Life

(2009) Chih-Horng Kuo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Inference of the impact of insertion sequence (IS) elements on bacterial genome diversification through analysis of small-size structural polymorphisms in Escherichia coli O157 genomes

(2009) T. Ooka et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

On the origin of prokaryotic species

(2009) W. F. Doolittle et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

ClpP of Streptococcus mutans Differentially Regulates Expression of Genomic Islands, Mutacin Production, and Antibiotic Tolerance

(2009) P. Chattoraj et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Group I Introns and Inteins: Disparate Origins but Convergent Parasitic Strategies

(2009) R. Raghavan et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mutagenesis and Functional Characterization of the RNA and Protein Components of the toxIN Abortive Infection and Toxin-Antitoxin Locus of Erwinia

(2009) T. R. Blower et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Site-Specific Insertion of IS492 in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica

(2009) B. P. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Identification of the Site-Specific DNA Invertase Responsible for the Phase Variation of SusC/SusD Family Outer Membrane Proteins in Bacteroides fragilis

(2009) H. Nakayama-Imaohji et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The vapBC Operon from Mycobacterium smegmatis Is An Autoregulated Toxin–Antitoxin Module That Controls Growth via Inhibition of Translation

(2009) Jennifer Robson et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Transcription Profile of Thermus thermophilus CRISPR Systems after Phage Infection

(2009) Yoshihiro Agari et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Small mobile sequences in bacteria display diverse structure/function motifs

(2009) Nicholas Delihas   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A novel genetic switch controls phase variable expression of CwpV, aClostridium difficilecell wall protein

(2009) Jenny E. Emerson et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Common strategies for antigenic variation by bacterial, fungal and protozoan pathogens

(2009) Kirk W. Deitsch et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Darwinian evolution in the light of genomics

(2009) E. V. Koonin   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Toolbox model of evolution of prokaryotic metabolic networks and their regulation

(2009) S. Maslov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Horizontal gene transfer and the earliest stages of the evolution of life

(2009) Anthony M. Poole   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Tuned for Transposition: Molecular Determinants Underlying the Hyperactivity of a Stowaway MITE

(2009) G. Yang et al.   SCIENCE

The Dynamics and Time Scale of Ongoing Genomic Erosion in Symbiotic Bacteria

(2009) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

An Alternative DNA Structure Is Necessary for Pilin Antigenic Variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

(2009) L. A. Cahoon et al.   SCIENCE

The SOS Response Controls Integron Recombination

(2009) E. Guerin et al.   SCIENCE

CRISPR-based adaptive and heritable immunity in prokaryotes

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

A modular master on the move: the Tn916 family of mobile genetic elements

(2009) Adam P. Roberts et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Toxin–Antitoxin Systems: More Than Selfish Entities?

(2009) Laurence Van Melderen et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Novel Mechanism of Transposon-Mediated Gene Activation

(2009) Zhongge Zhang et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Individuality in Bacteria

(2008) Carla J. Davidson et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Transposon Tn5

(2008) William S. Reznikoff   Annual Review of Genetics

Phase and antigenic variation mediated by genome modifications

(2008) Florence Wisniewski-Dyé et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Identification of Mobile Elements and Pseudogenes in the Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Genome

(2008) M. F. Romine et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The impact of horizontal gene transfer in shaping operons and protein interaction networks – direct evidence of preferential attachment

(2008) Wagied Davids et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes

(2008) Gang Fang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Molecular phylogeny: reconstructing the forest

(2008) Philippe Lopez et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

The Bacterial Chromosome

(2008) Milton H. Saier   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Determination of the Genome Sequence of Porphyromonas gingivalis Strain ATCC 33277 and Genomic Comparison with Strain W83 Revealed Extensive Genome Rearrangements in P. gingivalis

(2008) M. Naito et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Blattabacteria, the endosymbionts of cockroaches, have small genome sizes and high genome copy numbers

(2008) María José López-Sánchez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

POPULATION STRUCTURE, LEVELS OF SELECTION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTRACELLULAR SYMBIONTS

(2008) Brendan O'Fallon   EVOLUTION

Laterally transferred genomic islands in Xanthomonadales related to pathogenicity and primary metabolism

(2008) Wanessa C. Lima et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

A Recently Active Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Element, Chunjie, Inserted Into an Operon Without Disturbing the Operon Structure in Geobacter uraniireducens Rf4

(2008) Y. Chen et al.   GENETICS

Comparative analysis of CRISPR loci in lactic acid bacteria genomes

(2008) Philippe Horvath et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Association of IS26-composite transposons and complex In4-type integrons generates novel multidrug resistance loci in Salmonella genomic island 1

(2008) B. Doublet et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Interaction between Bacteriophage DMS3 and Host CRISPR Region Inhibits Group Behaviors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2008) M. E. Zegans et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Oxygen-Limiting Conditions Enrich for Fimbriate Cells of Uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis and Escherichia coli

(2008) M. C. Lane et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Phage-Associated Mutator Phenotype in Group A Streptococcus

(2008) J. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Chromosomal Toxin-Antitoxin Systems May Act as Antiaddiction Modules

(2008) M. Saavedra De Bast et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Small Toxic Proteins and the Antisense RNAs That Repress Them

(2008) E. M. Fozo et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

RecBCD Enzyme and the Repair of Double-Stranded DNA Breaks

(2008) M. S. Dillingham et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The RecBCD and SbcCD DNases suppress homology-facilitated illegitimate recombination during natural transformation of Acinetobacter baylyi

(2008) K. Harms et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Expression of the Helicobacter pylori adhesin SabA is controlled via phase variation and the ArsRS signal transduction system

(2008) A. C. Goodwin et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

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

Diversity-Generating Retroelement Homing Regenerates Target Sequences for Repeated Rounds of Codon Rewriting and Protein Diversification

(2008) Huatao Guo et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

SbcCD Causes a Double-Strand Break at a DNA Palindrome in the Escherichia coli Chromosome

(2008) John K. Eykelenboom et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

A small SOS-induced toxin is targeted against the inner membrane in Escherichia coli

(2008) Cecilia Unoson et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanism of homologous recombination from the RecA–ssDNA/dsDNA structures

(2008) Zhucheng Chen et al.   NATURE

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Survey of group I and group II introns in 29 sequenced genomes of the Bacillus cereus group: insights into their spread and evolution

(2008) Nicolas J. Tourasse et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world

(2008) E. V. Koonin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A diversity of uncharacterized reverse transcriptases in bacteria

(2008) Dawn M. Simon et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Insight into Microevolution of Yersinia pestis by Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

(2008) Yujun Cui et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial addiction module toxin Doc inhibits translation elongation through its association with the 30S ribosomal subunit

(2008) M. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution

(2008) T. Dagan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Virus Population Dynamics and Acquired Virus Resistance in Natural Microbial Communities

(2008) A. F. Andersson et al.   SCIENCE

Lateral gene transfer challenges principles of microbial systematics

(2008) Eric Bapteste et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Nezha, a novel active miniature inverted-repeat transposable element in cyanobacteria

(2007) Fengfeng Zhou et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

CRISPR — a widespread system that provides acquired resistance against phages in bacteria and archaea

(2007) Rotem Sorek et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY