Selective Silencing of Foreign DNA with Low GC Content by the H-NS Protein in Salmonella

By W. Navarre, S. Porwollik, Yipeng Wang, Michael McClelland, H. Rosen, S. Libby, F. Fang. Science, 2006

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Biological Diversity of Prokaryotic Type IV Secretion Systems (2009, background): “protein that is well known for its role in transcription silencing through the blockage of RNA polymerase access to or progression along DNA (196, 197).”
The Major Architects of Chromatin: Architectural Proteins in Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes (2008, background): “ChIP-on-chip data for H-NS binding along the E. coli and S. typhimurium genome (Navarre et al., 2006; Oshima et al., 2006) revealed that H-NS patches are distributed in a seemingly random (but determined by higher than average AT content) manner along the genome, similar to the distribution of…”
Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution (2008, background): “Work from several laboratories exploiting recent DNA microarray technology has shown that H-NS plays a key role in the selective silencing of horizontally acquired genes (Lucchini et al., 2006; Navarre et al., 2006).”
Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins, nucleoid structure and gene expression (2010, neutral): “gov/sites/entrez?db=genomeprj&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=12302"> Salmonella enterica”