Silencing and activating type IV secretion genes of the F-like conjugative resistance plasmid R1

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 12, 2013, Pages 2481-2491

  Wagner, Maria Anna ^a,b   Bischof, Karin ^a   Kati, Dominiki ^a,c   Koraimann, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRAJ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; F LIKE PLASMID; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID R1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; F FACTOR; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; R FACTORS; SALMONELLA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84888877470     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.071738-0     Document Type: Article

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