Characterization of the relationship between integrase, excisionase and antirepressor activities associated with a superinfecting Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophage

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2116-2129

  Fogg, P C M ^a,b   Rigden, D J ^a   Saunders, J R ^a   McCarthy, A J ^a   Allison, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCISIONASE; INTEGRASE; SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA STX24B; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUPERINFECTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

COLIPHAGES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; INTEGRASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79953695956     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq923     Document Type: Article

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