Host-specific incompatibility by 9-bp direct repeats indicates a role in the maintenance of broad-host-range plasmid RK2

Plasmid

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 216-223

  Wilson, James W ^a   Figurski, David H ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Incompatibility group P; IncP; Partition; Plasmid maintenance; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; R751; RK2

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; SPACER DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; KIL PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMID R751; PLASMID RK2; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, INTERGENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS;

BROAD HOST RANGE PLASMIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0036557989     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00015-X     Document Type: Article

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