Cloning, sequencing and complementation analysis of the recA gene from Prevotella ruminicola

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-59

  Aminov, Rustem I ^a   Nagamine, Takafumi ^a   Ogata, Koretsugu ^a   Sugiura, Mutsumi ^a   Tajima, Kiyoshi ^a   Benno, Yoshimi ^a,b  

^a STAFF Institute   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

complementation; Escherichia coli; Prevotella ruminicola; RecA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA RUMINICOLA; PREVOTELLA RUMINICOLA 23;

EID: 0030588084     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00338-2     Document Type: Article

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