Determination of specific DNA strand discontinuities with nucleotide resolution in exponentionally growing bacteria harboring rolling circle- replicating plasmids

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 363-369

  Grohmann, Elisabeth ^a   Zechner, Ellen L ^b   Espinosa, Manuel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

DNA polymerase I; Rolling circle replication; Runoff DNA synthesis assay; Strand specific cleavage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HELICASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030794355     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00228-0     Document Type: Article

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