The telomeres of Streptomyces chromosomes contain conserved palindromic sequences with potential to form complex secondary structures

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 905-916

  Huang, Chih Hung ^a   Lin, Yi Shing ^a,b   Yang, Ya Ling ^a,c   Huang, Shu Wen ^a   Chen, Carton W ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Food Industry and Research Development Institute   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STREPTOMYCES; TELOMERE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); PARVOVIRUS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031835535     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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