Inhibitory effect of Pseudomonas putida nitrogen-related phosphotransferase system on conjugative transfer of IncP-9 plasmid from Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 345, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 102-109

  Inoue, Kei ^a   Miyazaki, Ryo ^a,b   Ohtsubo, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nagata, Yuji ^a   Tsuda, Masataka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Host range; IncP 9 plasmid; Pseudomonas; PTSN tr

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; LETTER; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PTSO GENE; PTSP GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

CONJUGATION; HOST RANGE; INCP-9 PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; PTSN TR;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84880641770     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12188     Document Type: Letter

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