Identification and characterization of the phage gene sav, involved in sensitivity to the lactococcal abortive infection mechanism AbiV

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2484-2494

  Haaber, Jakob ^a   Rousseau, Geneviéve M ^b   Hammer, Karin ^a   Moineau, Sylvain ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEL FILTRATIONS; GENOME SEQUENCING; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NATIVE FORMS; OVER EXPRESSIONS; POINT MUTATIONS; TOXIC EFFECTS; WILD TYPES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GELATION;

POLYPEPTIDES;

POLYHISTIDINE TAG; POLYPEPTIDE; SAV POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MUTATION;

ABIV GENE; ABORTIVE INFECTION MECHANISM ABIV; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; SAV GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 64749089552     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02093-08     Document Type: Article

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