A mutational analysis of the ColE1-encoded cell cycle regulator Rcd confirms its role in plasmid stability

Plasmid

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-73

  Balding, Claire ^a   Blaby, Ian ^a   Summers, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle checkpoint; Dimer resolution; Plasmid stability; Site specific recombination; Small regulatory RNA

Indexed keywords

FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; PROTEIN; RCD PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; DIMERIZATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646530499     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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