Streptomyces linear plasmids that contain a phage-like, centrally located, replication origin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 789-800

  Chang, Poa Chun ^a,b   Kim, Eung Soo ^a   Cohen, Stanley N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; STREPTOMYCES;

PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS; STREPTOMYCES ROCHEI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0029847583     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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