The effect of the location of the proteic post-segregational stability system within the replicon of plasmid pTF-FC2 on the fine regulation of plasmid replication

Plasmid

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 98-107

  Matcher, Gwynneth F ^a   Rawlings, Douglas E ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Plasmid copy number; Plasmid replication; Plasmid stability; Toxin antitoxin module

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPB PROTEIN; PARD PROTEIN; PASA PROTEIN; PASB PROTEIN; REPA PROTEIN; REPC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DOSAGE; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPLICON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67650744255     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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