Conservation of the genetic switch between replication and transfer genes of IncP plasmids but divergence of the replication functions which are major host-range determinants

Plasmid

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-111

  Thorsted, Peter B ^a   Shah, Deepan S ^a,b   Macartney, Donia ^a   Kostelidou, Kalliopi ^a   Thomas, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0030249515     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.0037     Document Type: Article

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