ppGpp-dependent negative control of DNA replication of Shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 5007-5015

  Nowicki, Dariusz ^a   Kobiela, Wioletta ^a   Wegrzyn, Alicja ^b   Wegrzyn, Grzegorz ^a   Szalewska Palasz, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PLASMID DNA; PPGPP PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROPHAGE; WILD TYPE;

COLIPHAGES; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; PROPHAGES; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84887227789     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00592-13     Document Type: Article

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