The expression of a novel antisense gene mediates incompatibility within the large repABC family of α-proteobacterial plasmids

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 611-623

  MacLellan, Shawn R ^a   Smallbone, Laura A ^a   Sibley, Christopher D ^a   Finan, Turlough M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INCA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPA GENE; REPB GENE; REPC GENE; REPLICON; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RNA, ANTISENSE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 13144275222     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04412.x     Document Type: Article

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