Enhancement of ColE1-type replication promoted by the Gpα initiator protein of bacteriophage P4

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-15

  Díaz Orejas, Ramón ^a   Lurz, Rudi ^b   Rückert, Beate ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

ColE1 replication; DNA replication; Gp protein; Phage P4

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

COLICINS; COLIPHAGES; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

DNA VIRUSES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031445096     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00319-4     Document Type: Article

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