Toxin-antitoxin systems homologous with relBE of Escherichia coli plasmid P307 are ubiquitous in prokaryotes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1401-1415

  Grønlund, Hugo ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antitoxin; Lon; Plasmid stabilization; relBE; Toxin

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOTOXIN; PROTEINASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033614011     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2416     Document Type: Article

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