Toxin Kid uncouples DNA replication and cell division to enforce retention of plasmid R1 in Escherichia coli cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2734-2739

  Pimentel, Belén ^a   Nair, Radhika ^a   Bermejo Rodríguez, Camino ^a   Preston, Mark A ^a   Agu, Chukwuma A ^a   Wang, Xindan ^b   Bernal, Juan A ^c   Sherratt, David J ^b   De La Cueva Méndez, Guillermo ^a,d  

^a HUTCHISON MRC RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^d Institute of Biomedical Research in Malaga and BIONAND Nanomedicine Platform   (Spain)

Author keywords

MRNA interferase; ParD; PemK; Plasmid stability; RNase

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BETA LACTAMASE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; PROTEIN KID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID R1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R PLASMID;

MRNA INTERFERASE; PARD; PEMK; PLASMID STABILITY; RNASE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; R FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84894345391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308241111     Document Type: Article

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