Functional analysis of the finO distal region of plasmid R1

Plasmid

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-168

  Nuk, Monika R ^a   Reisner, Andreas ^a,b   Neuwirth, Martina ^a   Schilcher, Katrin ^a   Arnold, Roland ^c   Jehl, Andre ^c   Rattei, Thomas ^c,d   Zechner, Ellen L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b University of Applied Sciences   (Austria)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FINO GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; R FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79551482643     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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