Genetic requirements for replication initiation of the staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid pSK41

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1456-1467

  Liu, Michael A ^a   Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Pon, Cindy K ^a   Skurray, Ronald A ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN PSK41; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPLICATION ORIGIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84861884500     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.057620-0     Document Type: Article

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