Genesis, effects and fates of repeats in prokaryotic genomes

TJ Treangen, AL Abraham, M Touchon… - FEMS microbiology …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
DNA repeats are causes and consequences of genome plasticity. Repeats are created by
intrachromosomal recombination or horizontal transfer. They are targeted by recombination …

Small mobile sequences in bacteria display diverse structure/function motifs

N Delihas - Molecular microbiology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Small repeat sequences in bacterial genomes, which represent non‐autonomous mobile
elements, have close similarities to archaeon and eukaryotic miniature inverted repeat …

Impact of small repeat sequences on bacterial genome evolution

N Delihas - Genome biology and evolution, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Intergenic regions of prokaryotic genomes carry multiple copies of terminal inverted repeat
(TIR) sequences, the nonautonomous miniature inverted-repeat transposable element …

Genomic characterization of the Yersinia genus

PE Chen, C Cook, AC Stewart, N Nagarajan… - Genome Biology, 2010 - Springer
Background New DNA sequencing technologies have enabled detailed comparative
genomic analyses of entire genera of bacterial pathogens. Prior to this study, three species …

Mobility and Generation of Mosaic Non-Autonomous Transposons by Tn3-Derived Inverted-Repeat Miniature Elements (TIMEs)

M Szuplewska, M Ludwiczak, K Lyzwa, J Czarnecki… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Functional transposable elements (TEs) of several Pseudomonas spp. strains isolated from
black shale ore of Lubin mine and from post-flotation tailings of Zelazny Most in Poland …

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia genomes: a start-up comparison

F Rocco, E De Gregorio, B Colonna… - International journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
The whole DNA sequences of 2 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains isolated from the
blood of a cancer patient (K279a) and the poplar Populus trichocarpa (R551-3) have been …

PCR-based rapid genotyping of Stenotrophomonas maltophiliaisolates

E Roscetto, F Rocco, MS Carlomagno, M Casalino… - BMC microbiology, 2008 - Springer
Background All bacterial genomes contain repetitive sequences which are members of
specific DNA families. Such repeats may occur as single units, or found clustered in multiple …

GTAG-and CGTC-tagged palindromic DNA repeats in prokaryotes

PP Di Nocera, E De Gregorio, F Rocco - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background REPs (Repetitive Extragenic Palindromes) are small (20–40 bp)
palindromic repeats found in high copies in some prokaryotic genomes, hypothesized to …

[HTML][HTML] The 3′ UTR of vigR is required for virulence in Staphylococcus aureus and has expanded through STAR sequence repeat insertions

DG Mediati, W Dan, D Lalaouna, H Dinh, A Pokhrel… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are alarmingly
common, and treatment is confined to last-line antibiotics. Vancomycin is the treatment of …

A giant family of short palindromic sequences in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

F Rocco, E De Gregorio… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The genome of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is peppered with palindromic elements
called SMAG (Stenotrophomonas maltophilia GTAG) because they carry at one terminus the …