TasA-tasB, a new putative toxin-antitoxin (TA) system from Bacillus thuringiensis pGI1 plasmid is a widely distributed composite mazE-doc TA system

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fico, Sarah ^a   Mahillon, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHLAMYDIA; CHLOROBI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEGREGATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TARGET CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTITOXINS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33750480879     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-259     Document Type: Article

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