Organization of the origins of replication of the chromosomes of Mycobacterium smegmatis, Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis and isolation of a functional origin from M. smegmatis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 283-293

  Salazar, Leiria ^a,b   Fsihi, Hafida ^b   De Rossi, Edda ^b,c   Riccardi, Giovanna ^c   Rios, Carmen ^a   Cole, Stewart T ^b   Takiff, Howard E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030002354     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02617.x     Document Type: Article

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