Concept information
Preferred term
F Factor
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Bacterial Fertility Factor
- Bacterial Fertility Factors
- Bacterial Sex Factor
- Bacterial Sex Factors
- Factor, Bacterial Fertility
- Factor, Bacterial Sex
- Factor F, Sex
- Factor Fs, Sex
- Factor, Resistance Transfer
- Factors, Bacterial Fertility
- Factors, Bacterial Sex
- Factors, Resistance Transfer
- Fertility Factor, Bacterial
- Fertility Factors, Bacterial
- F Plasmid
- F Plasmids
- Fs, Sex Factor
- Plasmid, F
- Plasmids, F
- Resistance Transfer Factor
- Resistance Transfer Factors
- Sex Factor, Bacterial
- Sex Factor F
- Sex Factor Fs
- Sex Factors, Bacterial
- Transfer Factor, Resistance
- Transfer Factors, Resistance
Scope note
- A plasmid whose presence in the cell, either extrachromosomal or integrated into the BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME, determines the "sex" of the bacterium, host chromosome mobilization, transfer via conjugation (CONJUGATION, GENETIC) of genetic material, and the formation of SEX PILI.
History note
- 78(75); was see under CONJUGATION, GENETIC 1975-77; SEX FACTOR, BACTERIAL was SEX FACTORS, BACTERIAL see under PLASMIDS 1978-83
In other languages
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005144
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