Destabilized inheritance of pSC101 and other Escherichia coil plasmids by DpiA, a novel two-component system regulator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-59

  Ingmer, Hanne ^a,b   Miller, Christine A ^a   Cohen, Stanley N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INHERITANCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031849458     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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