Characterization of a functional toxin-antitoxin module in the genome of the fish pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 317, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-92

  Gómez, Fernando A ^a   Cárdenas, Constanza ^a   Henríquez, Vitalia ^a   Marshall, Sergio H ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bicistronic operon; Endoribonuclesase activity; PIN domain; Piscirickettsia salmonis; Toxin antitoxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANTITOXIN TOXIN COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TOXIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PISCIRICKETTSIA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79952172320     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02218.x     Document Type: Article

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