Identification and characterization of type II toxin-antitoxin systems in the opportunistic pathogen acinetobacter baumannii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3165-3172

  Jurenaite, Milda ^a   Markuckas, Arvydas ^a   Sužiedeliene, Edita ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEA GENE; CHET GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HICA GENE; HICB GENE; HIGA GENE; HIGB GENE; HOSPITAL; LITHUANIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELB GENE; RELE GENE; RNA DEGRADATION; SPLA GENE; SPLT GENE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PLASMIDS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84880000324     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00237-13     Document Type: Article

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