The transfer region of Incl1 plasmid R64: Similarities between R64 tra and Legionella icm/dot genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1348-1359

  Komano, Teruya ^a   Yoshida, Tetsu ^a   Narahara, Koji ^a   Furuya, Nobuhisa ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; TRAY PROTEIN, E COLI; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE REARRANGEMENT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; LEGIONELLA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033624817     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01769.x     Document Type: Article

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