Multiple hok genes on the chromosome of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1090-1102

  Pedersen, Kim ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033036731     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01431.x     Document Type: Article

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