Rolling-circle replication of bacterial plasmids

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 442-455

  Khan, Saleem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; DNA NICK TRANSLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; ENHANCER REGION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031440479     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.61.4.442-455.1997     Document Type: Review

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