Characterization of the lytic-lysogenic switch of the lactococcal bacteriophage Tuc2009

Virology

Volumn 347, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 434-446

  Kenny, John G ^a   Leach, Stephen ^a   de la Hoz, Ana B ^b   Venema, Gerard ^d   Kok, Jan ^d   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a,c   Nauta, Arjen ^d   Alonso, Juan C ^b   van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CI; Cro; DNA binding; DNA looping; Phage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTEIN CI2009; PROTEIN CRO2009; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE TUC2009; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; INVERTED REPEAT; LACTOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS;

DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, SWITCH; GENOME, VIRAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LYSOGENY; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE TUC2009; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. CREMORIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 33646062279     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.11.041     Document Type: Article

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