The transfer operon of plasmid R1 extends beyond finO into the downstream replication genes

Plasmid

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-158

  Nuk, Monika R ^a   Reisner, Andreas ^a,b   Zechner, Ellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b University of Applied Sciences   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bacterial conjugation; Copy number control; Fertility inhibition; Gene regulation; Replication; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FINO GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; R FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79551481115     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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