Short-sequence DNA repeats in prokaryotic genomes

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 275-293

  Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Scherer, Stewart ^c   Van Alphen, Loek ^b,d   Verbrugh, Henri ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Acacia Biosciences Inc   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031838719     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.2.275-293.1998     Document Type: Review

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