Identification of three cytotoxic early proteins of mycobacteriophage L5 leading to growth inhibition in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2304-2314

  Rybniker, Jan ^a   Plum, Georg ^a   Robinson, Nirmal ^a   Small, Pamela L ^b   Hartmann, Pia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC EARLY PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP71; GLYCOPROTEIN GP77; GLYCOPROTEIN GP78; GLYCOPROTEIN GP79; POLYPEPTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SHUTTLE VECTOR; VIRUS REPLICATION;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PHAGE L5; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 51149088912     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/017004-0     Document Type: Article

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