Rpos regulates a novel type of plasmid DNA transfer in Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yanmei ^a,b   Shi, Chunyu ^a   Yu, Jiafei ^a   Ren, Jingjing ^a   Sun, Dongchang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DENSITY; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; OSMC GENE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPOS GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UGPC GENE; YAJC GENE; YGIW GENE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL LOAD; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863351252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033514     Document Type: Article

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