Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are prevalent and transcribed in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-50

  Williams, Julia J ^a   Halvorsen, Elizabeth M ^a   Dwyer, Ellen M ^a   Difazio, Robert M ^b   Hergenrother, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; MazEF; Plasmid addiction; RelBE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGBA GENE; MAZEF GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEATS ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARDE GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RELBE GENE; TANDEM REPEAT; TOXIN ANTITOXIN GENE;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 79960625546     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02330.x     Document Type: Article

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