An unexpected effect of tetracycline concentration: Growth phase-associated excision of the Bacteroides mobilizable transposon NBU1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1078-1082

  Song, Bo ^a   Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALTOSE; TETRACYCLINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RTEA PROTEIN, BACTERIODES; RTEB PROTEIN, BACTERIODES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSPOSON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 63449113770     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00637-08     Document Type: Article

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