Site-specific nicking in vitro at ori T by the DNA relaxase of Tn5252

Plasmid

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-50

  Srinivas, Pravina ^a   Kiliç, Ali O ^a,b   Vijayakumar, Moses N ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KTU Tip FakMikrobiyoloji   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030950551     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.1268     Document Type: Article

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