Conjugative transfer can be inhibited by blocking relaxase activity within recipient cells with intrabodies

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 404-416

  Garcillán Barcia, M Pilar ^a   Jurado, Paola ^b   González Pérez, Blanca ^a   Moncalián, Gabriel ^a   Fernández, Luis A ^b   De La Cruz, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ENZYME ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; ISOENZYME; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TRWC; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; RELAXASE; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846074497     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05523.x     Document Type: Article

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