A highly conserved DNA replication module from Streptococcus thermophilus phages is similar in sequence and topology to a module from Lactococcus lactis phages

Virology

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 372-382

  Desiere, Frank ^a   Lucchini, Sacha ^a   Bruttin, Anne ^a   Zwahlen, Marie Camille ^a   Brüssow, Harald ^a  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0030854494     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8643     Document Type: Article

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