Horizontally Acquired Homologs of Xenogeneic Silencers: Modulators of Gene Expression Encoded by Plasmids, Phages and Genomic Islands

Horizontally Acquired Homologs of Xenogeneic Silencers: Modulators of Gene Expression Encoded by Plasmids, Phages and Genomic Islands

Acquisition of mobile elements by horizontal gene transfer can play a major role in bacterial adaptation and genome evolution by providing traits that contribute to bacterial fitness. However, gaining foreign DNA can also impose significant fitness costs to the host bacteria and can even produce det...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Piña-Iturbe, Isidora D. Suazo, Guillermo Hoppe-Elsholz, Diego Ulloa-Allendes, Pablo A. González, Alexis M. Kalergis, Susan M. Bueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Genes
Subjects:
genomic islands
xenogeneic silencers
horizontal gene transfer
transcriptional network
h-ns
mvat
lsr2
rok
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/2/142

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