刊物主题:Microbiology; Biological Microscopy; Mycology; Parasitology; Virology; Life Sciences, general;
出版者:BioMed Central
ISSN:1471-2180
卷排序:17
文摘
BackgroundBacteria of the class Mollicutes underwent extreme reduction of genomes and gene expression control systems. Only a few regulators are known to date. In this work, we describe a novel group of transcriptional regulators that are distributed within different Mollicutes and control the expression of restriction-modification systems (RM-systems).