Identification of the Chi site of Haemophilus influenzae as several sequences related to the Escherichia coli Chi site

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1021-1029

  Sourice, Sophie ^a   Biaudet, Véronique ^a   El Karoui, Meriem ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a   Gruss, Alexandra ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031782376     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00749.x     Document Type: Article

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