The toxin-antitoxin system of the streptococcal plasmid pSM19035

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6094-6105

  Zielenkiewicz, Urszula ^a   Cegłowski, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TOXIN; TOXIN ZETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTITOXINS; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 23644443867     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.17.6094-6105.2005     Document Type: Article

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