The linear plasmid pDHL1 from Debaryomyces hansenii encodes a protein highly homologous to the pGKL1-plasmid DNA polymerase

Yeast

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 613-620

  Fukuda, Kohsai ^a   Maebuchi, Motohiro ^a   Takata, Hideki ^a   Gunge, Norio ^a  

^a SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Debaryomyces hansenii; DNA polymerase; Hairpin loop; pDHL linear plasmids; UCS

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBARYOMYCES; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOTOXINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030952052     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19970615)13:7<613::AID-YEA116>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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