Functional regulation of the Listeria monocytogenes bacteriophage A118 holin by an intragenic inhibitor lacking the first transmembrane domain

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 173-186

  Vukov, Nataša ^a   Moll, Isabella ^b   Bläsi, Udo ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a   Loessner, Martin J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOLIN; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345269852     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03421.x     Document Type: Article

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