Identification of a maintenance system on rolling circle replicating plasmid pVT736-1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 649-659

  Galli, Dominique M ^a   LeBlanc, Donald J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030868590     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4991867.x     Document Type: Article

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