Structural and functional organization of the Yersinia pestis bacteriocin pesticin gene cluster

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3415-3424

  Rakin, Alexander ^a   Boolgakowa, Elena ^b   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RUSSIAN RESEARCH ANTI PLAGUE INSTITUTE MICROBE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Pesticin activity and immunity genes; pYP358 plasmid; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DRUG RECEPTOR; PALINDROMIC DNA; PESTICIN; PESTICIN IMMUNITY PROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0030472245     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-12-3415     Document Type: Article

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