A single gene directs both production and immunity of halocin C8 in a haloarchaeal strain AS7092

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 537-549

  Sun, Chaomin ^a,b   Li, Yun ^a,c   Mei, Shuangshuang ^a,b   Lu, Qiuhe ^a,b   Zhou, Ligang ^a,b   Xiang, Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HALOCIN; HALOCIN C8; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; HALC8 GENE; HALOARCULA; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM AS 7092; HALR GENE; IMMUNITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HALOARCULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HALOARCULA HISPANICA;

EID: 22144485200     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04705.x     Document Type: Article

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