The positive regulator, TraJ, of the Escherichia coli F plasmid is unstable in a cpxA* background

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5781-5788

  Gubbins, Michael J ^a   Lau, Isabella ^a   Will, William R ^a   Manchak, Janet M ^a   Raivio, Tracy L ^a   Frost, Laura S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN CPXA; PROTEIN TRAJ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OUTER MEMBRANE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036785174     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.20.5781-5788.2002     Document Type: Article

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