Sequence analysis and characterization of pOM1, a small cryptic plasmid from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and its use in construction of a new family of cloning vectors for butyrivibrios

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1701-1711

  Hefford, Mary Alice ^a,c   Kobayashi, Yasuo ^b   Allard, Sharon E ^a   Forster, Robert J ^a   Teather, Ronald M ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Bureau of Drug Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030971957     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.5.1701-1711.1997     Document Type: Article

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