In vivo interactions between toxin-antitoxin proteins epsilon and zeta of streptococcal plasmid pSM19035 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3677-3684

  Zielenkiewicz, Urszula ^a   Kowalewska, Magdalena ^b   Kaczor, Celina ^a,c   Cegłowski, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EPSILON PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZETA PROTEIN; ANTITOXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HYBRID GENE; IN VIVO CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PHAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; YEAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 66149135651     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01763-08     Document Type: Article

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