Microcin C51 plasmid genes: Possible source of horizontal gene transfer

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2868-2874

  Fomenko, Dmitri E ^a   Metlitskaya, Anastazia Z ^a   Péduzzi, Jean ^c   Goulard, Christophe ^c   Katrukha, Genrikh S ^b   Gening, Leonid V ^a   Rebuffat, Sylvie ^c,d   Khmel, Inessa A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b GAUSE INSTITUTE OF NEW ANTIBIOTICS   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MICROCIN C51; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN MCCC51P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNITY; MCCA GENE; MCCB GENE; MCCC GENE; MCCC7 GENE; MCCD GENE; MCCE GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

BACTERIOCINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0042925267     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.9.2868-2874.2003     Document Type: Article

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