DNA Supercoiling: an Ancestral Regulator of Gene Expression in Pathogenic Bacteria?

DNA supercoiling acts as a global and ancestral regulator of bacterial gene expression. In this review, we advocate that it plays a pivotal role in host-pathogen interactions by transducing environmental signals to the bacterial chromosome and coordinating its transcriptional response. We present av...

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Main Authors: Shiny Martis B., Raphaël Forquet, Sylvie Reverchon, William Nasser, Sam Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037019302405