The centromere site of the segregation cassette of broad-host-range plasmid RA3 is located at the border of the maintenance and conjugative transfer modules

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2414-2427

  Kulińska, Anna ^a   Cao, Yunhong ^b   Macioszek, Małgorzata ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^c   Jagura Burdzy, Grazyna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS; AUTOREGULATIONS; BELONG TO; CENTRAL CONTROL; CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER; EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN; PALINDROMIC; PARTITION SYSTEMS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; INCOMPATIBILITY; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLASMID;

AEROMONAS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

AEROMONAS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79953269570     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02338-10     Document Type: Article

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