A plasmid partition system of the P1-P7par family from the pMT1 virulence plasmid of Yersinia pestis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3924-3928

  Youngren, Brenda ^a   Radnedge, Lyndsay ^b   Hu, Ping ^b,c   Garcia, Emilio ^b   Austin, Stuart ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c diaDexus   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROVIRUSES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0033932517     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.14.3924-3928.2000     Document Type: Article

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