Differential functional properties of chromosomal- and plasmid-encoded H-NS proteins

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 382-385

  Baños, Rosa C ^a   Aznar, Sonia ^b   Madrid, C ^b   Juárez, Antonio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjugation; H NS; H NS antagonism; H NSTEPEC; R27

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TEMPERATURE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

EID: 79955128222     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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