Characterization of an active partition system for the Enterococcus faecalis pheromone-responding plasmid pAD1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 8546-8555

  Francia, Maria Victoria ^a,b   Weaver, Keith E ^d   Goicoechea, Patricia ^a   Tille, Patricia ^d,e   Clewell, Don B ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^e University of Sioux Falls   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROTEIN REPB; PROTEIN REPC; REPLICATION FACTOR A; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 36749086387     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00719-07     Document Type: Article

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