Homologs of Escherichia coli recJ, gltX and of a putative 'early' gene of avian Chlamydia psittaci are located upstream of the 'late' omp2 locus of Chlamydia psittaci strain guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis

Gene

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 163-169

  Hsia, Ru Ching ^a   Bavoil, Patrik M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamyl tRNA synthetase; Intracellular bacterium; Recombinant DNA; Recombination gene

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GUINEA PIG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA PORCELLUS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030591751     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00240-5     Document Type: Article

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