The bacteroides fragilis BtgA mobilization protein binds to the oriT region of pBFTM10

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 4922-4928

  Sitailo, Leonid A ^a   Zagariya, Alexander M ^a,c   Arnold, Patrick J ^a   Vedantam, Gayatri ^a   Hecht, David W ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031656713     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.18.4922-4928.1998     Document Type: Article

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