Identification of a thermophilic plasmid origin and its cloning within a new Thermus-E. coli shuttle vector

Gene

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 321-328

  Wayne, Jay ^a   Xu, Shuang Yong ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasmid replication; Recombinant DNA; Replication protein; Thermophile

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; KANAMYCIN; PLASMID DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHUTTLE VECTOR; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; KANAMYCIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0030814243     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00191-1     Document Type: Article

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