Differential regulation of two closely related integrative and conjugative elements from Streptococcus thermophilus

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Carraro, Nicolas ^a,b   Libante, Virginie ^a,b   Morel, Catherine ^a,b   Decaris, Bernard ^a,b   Charron Bourgoin, Florence ^a,b   Leblond, Pierre ^a,b   Guédon, Gérard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; MITOMYCIN C; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80054804748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-238     Document Type: Article

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