Replication control of staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid pSK41: An antisense RNA mediates dual-level regulation of Rep expression

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4404-4412

  Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Skurray, Ronald A ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID PSK41; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPLICON; REPORTER GENE; RNA GENE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSLATION; RNAI GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33745003467     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00030-06     Document Type: Article

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