Molecular and functional analysis of pTAV320, a repABC-type replicon of the Paracoccus versutus composite plasmid pTAV1

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3149-3157

  Bartosik, Dariusz ^a   Baj, Jadwiga ^a   Wlodarczyk, Miroslawa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Minimal replicon; Paracoccus versutus; Plasmid replication and stability; pTAV1 composite plasmid; repABC replicon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON;

AGROBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOBACTER;

EID: 0031766816     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-11-3149     Document Type: Article

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