A vast collection of microbial genes that are toxic to bacteria

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 802-809

  Kimelman, Aya ^a   Levy, Asaf ^a   Sberro, Hila ^a   Kidron, Shahar ^a   Leavitt, Azita ^a   Amitai, Gil ^a   Yoder Himes, Deborah R ^b   Wurtzel, Omri ^a   Zhu, Yiwen ^c,d   Rubin, Edward M ^c,d   Sorek, Rotem ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA FRAGMENT; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA BINDING; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTOXICITY; HOST; INHIBITION KINETICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84859531709     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.133850.111     Document Type: Article

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