Identification of a RecA homolog (RecA(LP)) on the conjugative lactococcal phage resistance plasmid pNP40: Evidence of a role for chromosomally encoded RecA(L) in abortive infection

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1244-1251

  Garvey, Patricia ^a   Rince, Alain ^a   Hill, Colin ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; LACTOCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID;

LACTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030936805     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1244-1251.1997     Document Type: Article

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