Global transcriptional regulation of backbone genes in broad-host-range plasmid RA3 from the IncU group involves segregation protein KorB (ParB family)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2320-2335

  Kulinska, Anna ^a,b   Godziszewska, Jolanta ^a,c   Wojciechowska, Anna ^a,b   Ludwiczak, Marta ^a   Jagura Burdzy, Grazyna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; CHROMOSOMES; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEINS;

CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER; DNA BINDING ABILITY; GLOBAL REGULATORS; OVER-EXPRESSION; REPRESSOR ACTIVITY; STABILITY REGIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION;

DNA;

BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84963540065     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03541-15     Document Type: Article

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