Nucleotide sequences and gene organization of TaqI endonuclease isoschizomers from Thermus sp. SM32 and Thermus filiformis Tok6A1

Gene

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 205-214

  Cao, Weiguo ^a   Lu, Jing ^a   Barany, Francis ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble PCR; Evolution; Methylase; Thermus

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CODON; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISOSCHIZOMER; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMUS; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); THERMUS;

THERMUS; THERMUS FILIFORMIS; THERMUS SP.; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0030774040     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00264-3     Document Type: Article

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