The kilA operon of promiscuous plasmid RK2: the use of a transducing phage (lambda pklaA-1) to determine the effects of the lethal klaA gene on Escherichia coli cells.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1991.tb01976.x

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The kilA operon of promiscuous plasmid RK2: the use of a transducing phage (lambda pklaA-1) to determine the effects of the lethal klaA gene on Escherichia coli cells.

Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 1991

Saltman L H, Kim K S, Figurski D H

Abstract excerpt

The kil-kor regulon of promiscuous plasmid RK2 includes the replication initiator gene trfA and several potentially host-lethal kil loci (kilA, kilB, kilC, kilE), whose functions may be involved in plasmid maintenance or broad host range. The kilA locus consists of a single operon of three genes...

Topics

Bacterial Proteins
Bacteriophage lambda
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Genes, Bacterial
Genes, Lethal
Operon
Phenotype
Plasmids
Repressor Proteins
Transduction, Genetic

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