Site-Specific Recombination - How Simple DNA Inversions Produce Complex Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Bacterial Populations.

doi:10.1016/j.tig.2020.09.004

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Site-Specific Recombination - How Simple DNA Inversions Produce Complex Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Bacterial Populations.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Jan 2021

Trzilova Dominika, Tamayo Rita

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Many bacterial species generate phenotypically heterogeneous subpopulations as a strategy for ensuring the survival of the population as a whole - an environmental stress that eradicates one subpopulation may leave other phenotypic groups unharmed, allowing the lineage to continue. Phase variation, a process that functions as an ON/OFF switch for gene expression, is one way that bacteria achieve phenotypic...

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Bacteria
Bacterial Proteins
Chromosome Inversion
DNA, Bacterial
Epigenesis, Genetic
Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
Phenotype
Recombination, Genetic

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PMID: 33008627
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2020.09.004
PMCID: PMC7755746

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