F-like plasmid sequences in enteric bacteria of diverse origin, with implication of horizontal transfer and plasmid host range

Current Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 231-235

  Mulec, Janez ^a   Starcic, Marjanca ^a   Zgur Bertok, Darja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; F FACTOR; REPE PROTEIN, E COLI; REPF PROTEIN, PLASMID PE194; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0043095547     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0039-7     Document Type: Article

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