Molecular characterization of the replicon of the Pediococcus pentosaceus 43200 pediocin A plasmid pMD136

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 237-244

  Kantor, Ayelet ^a   Montville, Thomas J ^b   Mett, Anait ^a   Shapira, Roni ^a  

^a Institute of Biochemistry Food Science and Nutrition   (Israel)

^b New Jersey Agric Exp Stn Cook C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Pediococcus pentosaceus; Repeated sequence; Segregational stability; Theta type replicons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEDIOCOCCUS; PLASMIDS; REPLICON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PEDIOCOCCUS PENTOSACEUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030787586     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00167-5     Document Type: Article

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