Specific cleavage of chromosomal and plasmid DNA strands in gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria can be detected with nucleotide resolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 7435-7440

  Zechner, Ellen L ^a   Prüger, Hermann ^a   Grohmann, Elisabeth ^b   Espinosa, Manuel ^b   Högenauer, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjugational DNA transfer; Nicking closing activity; Relaxosome; Rolling circle DNA replication

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; NUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030737510     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.14.7435     Document Type: Article

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