Functional analysis of the type II toxin-antitoxin systems of the MazEF and RelBE families in Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis ATCC 15697

Anaerobe

Volumn 35, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-67

  Averina, Olga ^a   Alekseeva, Maria ^a   Shkoporov, Andrei ^b   Danilenko, Valery ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium; Human intestinal microbiota; Ribonuclease; Toxin antitoxin systems

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM INFANTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MAZF GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELB GENE; RELE GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VAPC GENE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OPERON;

EID: 84938307268     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2015.07.007     Document Type: Article

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