In vitro and in vivo stability of the ε2ζ2 protein complex of the broad host-range Streptococcus pyogenes pSM19035 addiction system

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 383, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1701-1713

  Camacho, Ana G ^a   Misselwitz, Rolf ^b   Behlke, Joachim ^b   Ayora, Silvia ^a   Welfle, Karin ^b   Meinhart, Anton ^c   Lara, Beatriz ^a   Saenger, Wolfram ^c   Welfle, Heinz ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plasmid addiction; Postegregational killing; Protein folding; Protein stability; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; TETRAMER;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL KILLING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GEL FILTRATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HALF-LIFE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; UREA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 12244282678     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2002.191     Document Type: Article

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