Prevalence of Fst-like toxin-antitoxin systems

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 975-977

  Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Jensen, Slade O ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; FST PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; TOXIN ANTITOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77950682810     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.038323-0     Document Type: Note

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