The role of FIS in the Rcd checkpoint and stable maintenance of plasmid ColE1

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2676-2682

  Blaby, I K ^a,b   Summers, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; PROTEIN ARGR; PROTEIN COLE1; PROTEIN PEPA; PROTEIN XERC; PROTEIN XERD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69949119244     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.029777-0     Document Type: Article

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