Toxin-antitoxin systems in the mobile genome of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Bustamante, Paula ^a   Tello, Mario ^b   Orellana, Omar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE; ANTITOXIN; TOXIN;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; ICEAFE1 GENE; MOBILE GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM; TRANSPOSON; TYPE STRAIN; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ANTITOXINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PLASMIDS; RIBONUCLEASES; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84911370313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112226     Document Type: Article

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