AbiG, a genotypically novel abortive infection mechanism encoded by plasmid pCI750 of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris UC653

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3075-3082

  O'Connor, L ^a   Coffey, A ^a,b   Daly, C ^a   Fitzgerald, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA REPLICATION; GENOTYPE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS SUBSP. CREMORIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029807312     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3075-3082.1996     Document Type: Article

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