The excision proteins of CTnDOT positively regulate the transfer operon

Plasmid

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 172-179

  Keeton, Carolyn M ^a   Park, Jiyeon ^b   Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Hopp, Crystal M ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Gardner, Jeffrey F ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteroides; CTnDOT; Exc; Gene regulation; Xis2c; Xis2d

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN XIS2C; PROTEIN XIS2D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXC GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; ORF3 GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON CTNDOT; XIS2C GENE; XIS2D GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GLUCURONIDASE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES SP.;

EID: 84873525302     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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