Signal transduction and bacterial conjugation: Characterization of the role of ArcA in regulating conjugative transfer of the resistance plasmid R1

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-316

  Strohmaier, Heimo ^a   Noiges, Rainer ^a   Kotschan, Sabine ^a   Sawers, Gary ^b   Högenauer, Gregor ^a   Zechner, Ellen L ^a   Koraimann, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ArcA; Bacterial conjugation; Plasmid R1; Signal transduction; Two component system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0032571319     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1598     Document Type: Article

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