Characterization of BctA, a mating apparatus protein required for transfer of the Bacteroides fragilis conjugal element BTF-37

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 600-607

  Hecht, David W ^a   Kos, Ian M ^a   Knopf, Sarah E ^a   Vedantam, Gayatri ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteroides fragilis; bctA; Conjugal apparatus; Conjugative transposon

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCTA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BCTA GENE; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34748848580     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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