The stb operon balances the requirements for vegetative stability and conjugative transfer of plasmid R388

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Guynet, Catherine ^a   Cuevas, Ana ^a   Moncalián, Gabriel ^a   de la Cruz, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN STBA; PROTEIN STBB; PROTEIN STBC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PLASMID R388; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STBA GENE; STBB GENE; STBC GENE; GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPERON; PLASMIDS;

EID: 79958008649     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002073     Document Type: Article

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