Analysis of the Bacillus cereus SpoIIS antitoxin-toxin system reveals its three-component nature

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Melnicáková, Jana ^a,b   Becárová, Zuzana ^a,c   Makroczyová, Jana ^a   Barák, Imrich ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Clinic s r o   (Slovakia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Bacillus subtilis; Programmed cell death; SpoIIS; Toxin antitoxin system

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; GLUTARALDEHYDE; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84941003568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00808     Document Type: Article

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