Horizontal gene transfer of chromosomal type ii toxin-antitoxin systems of escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 363, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ramisetty, Bhaskar Chandra Mohan ^a   Santhosh, Ramachandran Sarojini ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anti addiction to plasmids; Horizontal gene transfer; Non homologous integration; Selfish DNA

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME TYPE II; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 84960079253     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnv238     Document Type: Article

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