TnCentral: a Prokaryotic Transposable Element Database and Web Portal for Transposon Analysis

Karen Ross; Alessandro M. Varani; Erik Snesrud; Hongzhan Huang; Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga; Jian Zhang; Cathy Wu; Patrick McGann; Mick Chandler

doi:10.1128/mBio.02060-21

mBio (Oct 2021)

TnCentral: a Prokaryotic Transposable Element Database and Web Portal for Transposon Analysis

Karen Ross,
Alessandro M. Varani,
Erik Snesrud,
Hongzhan Huang,
Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga,
Jian Zhang,
Cathy Wu,
Patrick McGann,
Mick Chandler

Affiliations

Karen Ross: ORCiD; Protein Information Resource, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Alessandro M. Varani: ORCiD; School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Erik Snesrud: Multidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Hongzhan Huang: Protein Information Resource, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Danillo Oliveira Alvarenga: ORCiD; School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jian Zhang: Protein Information Resource, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Cathy Wu: ORCiD; Protein Information Resource, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Patrick McGann: ORCiD; Multidrug-Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Mick Chandler: ORCiD; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02060-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 5

Abstract

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The ability of bacteria to undergo rapid evolution and adapt to changing environmental circumstances drives the public health crisis of multiple antibiotic resistance, as well as outbreaks of disease in economically important agricultural crops and animal husbandry. Prokaryotic transposable elements (TE) play a critical role in this.

Published in mBio

ISSN: 2161-2129 (Print); 2150-7511 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/mbio

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