Plasmid Evolution and Interaction between the Plasmid Addiction Stability Systems of Two Related Broad-Host-Range IncQ-Like Plasmids

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2123-2133

  Deane, Shelly M ^a   Rawlings, Douglas E ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; PASA ANTITOXIN; PASB TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID ADDICTION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIDOTES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BROAD HOST RANGE PLASMIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1642341084     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.7.2123-2133.2004     Document Type: Article

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