pTAR-encoded proteins in plasmid partitioning

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1889-1894

  Kalnin, Kirill ^a,b   Stegalkina, Svetlana ^a,c   Yarmolinsky, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DNA; GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEGREGATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RHIZOBIUM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034117920     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.7.1889-1894.2000     Document Type: Article

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