Functional validation of putative toxin-antitoxin genes from the Gram-positive pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae: Phd-doc is the fourth bona-fide operon

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Chan, Wai Ting ^a   Yeo, Chew Chieng ^b   Sadowy, Ewa ^c   Espinosa, Manuel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN   (Malaysia)

^c NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Phd Doc; Pneumococcal toxin antitoxin loci; Self regulation; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANTITOXIN GENE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TOXIN GENE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84920669889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00677     Document Type: Article

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