A widespread bacteriophage abortive infection system functions through a Type IV toxin-antitoxin mechanism

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4590-4605

  Dy, Ron L ^a   Przybilski, Rita ^a   Semeijn, Koen ^a   Salmond, George P C ^b   Fineran, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; ANTITOXIN ABIEI; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; TOXIN; TOXIN ABIEII; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABIE GENE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL ABORTIVE SYSTEMS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOSTASIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM; TOXIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84897845950     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1419     Document Type: Article

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