The terminal structures of linear plasmids from Rhodococcus opacus

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1271-1279

  Kalkus, Jutta ^a   Menne, Renate ^a   Reh, Michael ^a   Schlegel, Hans G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linear plasmid; Rhodococcus opacus; Terminal inverted repeat (TIR); Terminal protein (TP)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); NOCARDIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOCOCCUS OPACUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031781086     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-5-1271     Document Type: Article

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