Transient transcriptional activation of the Incl1 plasmid anti-restriction gene (ardA) and SOS inhibition gene (psiB) early in conjugating recipient

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-142

  Althorpe, Nicola J ^a   Chilley, Paul M ^a,b   Thomas, Angela T ^a   Brammar, William J ^a   Wilkins, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032923349     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01153.x     Document Type: Article

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