Replication and control of circular bacterial plasmids

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 434-464

  Del Solar, Gloria ^a   Giraldo, Rafael ^a   Ruiz Echevarría, María Jesús ^a   Espinosa, Manuel ^a   Díaz Orejas, Ramón ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA SUPERCOILING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STEADY STATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031811125     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.2.434-464.1998     Document Type: Review

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