Identification of a partition and replication region in the Alcaligenes eutrophus megaplasmid pMOL28

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-179

  Taghavi, Safieh ^a   Provoost, Ann ^a   Mergeay, Max ^a   Van Der Lelie, Daniël ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alcaligenes eutrophus; Plasmid partition; Plasmid replication; Plasmid stability; PMOL28

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VECTORS; METALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030020749     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050064     Document Type: Article

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