Replication and partitioning of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2

Plasmid

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 119-134

  Kolatka, Katarzyna ^a   Kubik, Slawomir ^a   Rajewska, Magdalena ^a   Konieczny, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Global regulatory network; Partitioning; Replication initiation; RK2 plasmid

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; KORB PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANS ACTING REPLICATION FUNCTION A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PARTITIONING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; R FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956884381     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.06.004     Document Type: Review

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