Characterization of the genes encoding integrative and excisive functions of Lactobacillus phage øgle: Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression in Escherichia coli

Gene

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-125

  Kakikawa, Makiko ^a   Oki, Masaya ^a   Watanabe, Nobukatsu ^a   Yasukawa, Hiroo ^b   Masamune, Yukito ^b   Taketo, Akira ^c   Kodaira, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage gle; DNA sequence; Excisionase; Integrase; Lactic acid bacteria

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VIRUS GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

COLI PHAGE; DNA VIRUSES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE;

EID: 0031025704     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00648-8     Document Type: Article

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