Article
Analysis of an Escherichia coli mutant strain resistant to the cell-killing function encoded by the gef gene family.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 1992
Poulsen L K, Larsen N W, Molin S, Andersson P
Abstract excerpt
The chromosomal genes gef and relF from Escherichia coli and the plasmid-encoded genes hok, flmA, srnB, and pndA constitute the gef gene family, which encodes a cell-killing function. In order to investigate the mechanism of cell killing we have isolated an E. coli mutant strain that is resistant to the overexpression of the toxic proteins encoded by the gef gene family. This phenotype requires at least two...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Toxins
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test