A conserved anti-repressor controls horizontal gene transfer by proteolysis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 570-582

  Bose, Baundauna ^b   Auchtung, Jennifer M ^a,b   Lee, Catherine A ^b   Grossman, Alan D ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRESSOR GENE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS PHAGES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI-105; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 53849090635     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06414.x     Document Type: Article

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