Roles of TraI protein with activities of cleaving and rejoining the single-stranded DNA in both initiation and termination of conjugal DNA transfer

Genes to Cells

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 735-751

  Fukuda, Hirokazu ^a,b   Ohtsubo, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HELICASE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRAI PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA HELICASES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

EID: 0031301615     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1997.1580356.x     Document Type: Article

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