Ribosomal frameshifting and transcriptional slippage: From genetic steganography and cryptography to adventitious use

JF Atkins, G Loughran, PR Bhatt, AE Firth… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genetic decoding is not 'frozen'as was earlier thought, but dynamic. One facet of this is
frameshifting that often results in synthesis of a C-terminal region encoded by a new frame …

Shigella type III secretion effectors: how, where, when, for what purposes?

C Parsot - Current opinion in microbiology, 2009 - Elsevier
Bacteria of Shigella spp., the causative agents of shigellosis in humans, possess a
repertoire of∼ 25–30 effectors injected into host cells by a type III secretion apparatus …

DARNED: a DAtabase of RNa EDiting in humans

A Kiran, PV Baranov - Bioinformatics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: RNA editing is a phenomenon, which is responsible for the alteration of
particular nucleotides in RNA sequences relative to their genomic templates. Recently, a …

MxiC is secreted by and controls the substrate specificity of the Shigella flexneri type III secretion apparatus

A Botteaux, MP Sory, L Biskri, C Parsot… - Molecular …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Many Gram‐negative pathogenic bacteria use a type III secretion (T3S) system to interact
with cells of their hosts. Mechanisms controlling the hierarchical addressing of needle …

Isolation and characterization of RNA polymerase rpoB mutations that alter transcription slippage during elongation in Escherichia coli

YN Zhou, L Lubkowska, M Hui, S Chen… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
Transcription fidelity is critical for maintaining the accurate flow of genetic information. The
study of transcription fidelity has been limited because the intrinsic error rate of transcription …

A pilot study of bacterial genes with disrupted ORFs reveals a surprising profusion of protein sequence recoding mediated by ribosomal frameshifting and …

V Sharma, AE Firth, I Antonov, O Fayet… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial genome annotations contain a number of coding sequences (CDSs) that, in spite
of reading frame disruptions, encode a single continuous polypeptide. Such disruptions …

A Shigella flexneri Virulence Plasmid Encoded Factor Controls Production of Outer Membrane Vesicles

S Sidik, H Kottwitz, J Benjamin, J Ryu… - G3: Genes …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Shigella spp. use a repertoire of virulence plasmid-encoded factors to cause shigellosis.
These include components of a Type III Secretion Apparatus (T3SA) that is required for …

Identification of the nature of reading frame transitions observed in prokaryotic genomes

I Antonov, A Coakley, JF Atkins… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Our goal was to identify evolutionary conserved frame transitions in protein coding regions
and to uncover an underlying functional role of these structural aberrations. We used the ab …

Unraveling type III secretion systems in the highly versatile Burkholderia pseudomallei

GW Sun, YH Gan - Trends in microbiology, 2010 - cell.com
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a highly versatile pathogen capable of infecting many species
of animals and plants. It is the causative agent of melioidosis, a medically important …

Regulation of gene expression by reiterative transcription

CL Turnbough Jr - Current opinion in microbiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Gene regulation involves many different types of transcription control mechanisms, including
mechanisms based on reiterative transcription in which nucleotides are repetitively added to …