"R Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of plasmids that transfer antibiotic resistance from one bacterium to another by conjugation.
| Descriptor ID |
D011815
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.360.600.600
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| Concept/Terms |
R Factors- R Factors
- Factors, R
- Resistance Factors
- Factors, Resistance
- R Plasmids
- Plasmids, R
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| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "R Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Alonso G, Baptista K, Ngo T, Taylor DE. Transcriptional organization of the temperature-sensitive transfer system from the IncHI1 plasmid R27. Microbiology (Reading). 2005 Nov; 151(Pt 11):3563-3573.
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Gunton JE, Gilmour MW, Alonso G, Taylor DE. Subcellular localization and functional domains of the coupling protein, TraG, from IncHI1 plasmid R27. Microbiology (Reading). 2005 Nov; 151(Pt 11):3549-3561.
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Gilmour MW, Thomson NR, Sanders M, Parkhill J, Taylor DE. The complete nucleotide sequence of the resistance plasmid R478: defining the backbone components of incompatibility group H conjugative plasmids through comparative genomics. Plasmid. 2004 Nov; 52(3):182-202.
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Gilmour MW, Taylor DE. A subassembly of R27-encoded transfer proteins is dependent on TrhC nucleoside triphosphate-binding motifs for function but not formation. J Bacteriol. 2004 Mar; 186(6):1606-13.