Functioning of the TA cassette of streptococcal plasmid pSM19035 in various Gram-positive bacteria

Plasmid

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-60

  Brzozowska, Iwona ^a   Brzozowska, Kinga ^a   Zielenkiewicz, Urszula ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Firmicutes; Plasmid stability; PSM19035; Toxin antitoxin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FUNCTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE COMPOSITION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC LOCI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84861739742     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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