Direct and Inverted Repeats Elicit Genetic Instability by Both Exploiting and Eluding DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Systems in Mycobacteria

Evolutionary Link between the Mycobacterial Plasmid pAL5000 Replication Protein RepB and the Extracytoplasmic Function Family of   Factors

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Comparative Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pe and ppe Genes Reveals High Sequence Variation and an Apparent Absence of Selective Constraints

(2012) Christopher R. E. McEvoy et al.   PLoS One

Transcription-induced DNA toxicity at trinucleotide repeats

(2011) Yunfu Lin et al.   CELL CYCLE

Insights Into Mutagenesis UsingEscherichia coliChromosomallacZStrains That Enable Detection of a Wide Spectrum of Mutational Events

(2011) Tracey Seier et al.   GENETICS

On the sequence-directed nature of human gene mutation: The role of genomic architecture and the local DNA sequence environment in mediating gene mutations underlying human inherited disease

(2011) David N. Cooper et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

AccD6, a Key Carboxyltransferase Essential for Mycolic Acid Synthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Is Dispensable in a Nonpathogenic Strain

(2011) J. Pawelczyk et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Zinc-finger transcription factors are associated with guanine quadruplex motifs in human, chimpanzee, mouse and rat promoters genome-wide

(2011) Pankaj Kumar et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Expanding the Diversity of Mycobacteriophages: Insights into Genome Architecture and Evolution

(2011) Welkin H. Pope et al.   PLoS One

Huntington's and myotonic dystrophy hESCs: down-regulated trinucleotide repeat instability and mismatch repair machinery expression upon differentiation

(2010) Anna Seriola et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Pathways for Double-strand Break Repair in Genetically Unstable Z-DNA-forming Sequences

(2010) Diem T. Kha et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Mycobacteria exploit three genetically distinct DNA double-strand break repair pathways

(2010) Richa Gupta et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Replication-dependent instability at (CTG)•(CAG) repeat hairpins in human cells

(2010) Guoqi Liu et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Mechanisms of trinucleotide repeat instability during human development

(2010) Cynthia T. McMurray   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

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

Selectivity in Ligand Recognition of G-Quadruplex Loops†

(2009) Nancy H. Campbell et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Non-B DNA structure-induced genetic instability and evolution

(2009) Junhua Zhao et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Able To Accumulate and Utilize Cholesterol

(2009) A. Brzostek et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Non-B DNA conformations as determinants of mutagenesis and human disease

(2009) Albino Bacolla et al.   MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS

Models for chromosomal replication-independent non-B DNA structure-induced genetic instability

(2009) Guliang Wang et al.   MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS

Checkpoint responses to unusual structures formed by DNA repeats

(2009) Irina Voineagu et al.   MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS

Replisome stalling and stabilization at CGG repeats, which are responsible for chromosomal fragility

(2009) Irina Voineagu et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Optimisation of a mycobacterial replicon increases foreign antigen expression in mycobacteria

(2009) Sarah Griffin et al.   TUBERCULOSIS

The pathways and outcomes of mycobacterial NHEJ depend on the structure of the broken DNA ends

(2008) J. Aniukwu et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Insights from the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium marinum on the evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2008) T. P. Stinear et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

IS6110, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex-Specific Insertion Sequence, Is Also Present in the Genome of Mycobacterium smegmatis, Suggestive of Lateral Gene Transfer among Mycobacterial Species

(2008) A. Coros et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Genomic Characterization of Mycobacteriophage Giles: Evidence for Phage Acquisition of Host DNA by Illegitimate Recombination

(2008) P. Morris et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Transcription destabilizes triplet repeats

(2008) Yunfu Lin et al.   MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS

Comparative genomics of the mycobacteriophages: insights into bacteriophage evolution

(2008) Graham F. Hatfull et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

IS1096-mediated DNA rearrangements play a key role in genome evolution of Mycobacterium smegmatis

(2008) Xiao-Ming Wang et al.   TUBERCULOSIS