Functional interactions between chpB and parD, two homologous conditional killer systems found in the Escherichia coli chromosome and in plasmid R1

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-58

  Santos Sierra, Sandra ^a   Giraldo, Rafael ^a   Díaz Orejas, Ramón ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

chBI mutant; chpB and parD interaction; chpB operon; Conditional killer system; parD operon; Plasmid stability

Indexed keywords

KILLER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); R FACTORS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0031740522     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00417-0     Document Type: Article

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