Antisense-RNA-mediated plasmid copy number control in pCG1-family plasmids, pCGR2 and pCG1, in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3609-3623

  Okibe, Naoko ^a   Suzuki, Nobuaki ^a   Inui, Masayuki ^a   Yukawa, Hideaki ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PARB; PROTEIN REPA; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 78650066340     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.043745-0     Document Type: Article

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