Molecular analysis of the pRA2 partitioning region: ParB autoregulates parAB transcription and forms a nucleoprotein complex with the plasmid partition site, parS

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 621-633

  Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Chew, Chieng Yeo ^a   Chit, Laa Poh ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CENTROMERE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPLICON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034997888     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02405.x     Document Type: Article

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