Telomeres of the linear chromosomes of Lyme disease spirochaetes: Nucleotide sequence and possible exchange with linear plasmid telomeres

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 581-596

  Casjens, Sherwood ^a   Murphy, Maria ^a,b   DeLange, Michael ^a   Sampson, Laura ^a   Van Vugt, René ^a,c   Huang, Wai Mun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE; TELOMERE;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 0030696878     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.6051963.x     Document Type: Article

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