A rolling circle replication initiator protein with a nucleotidyl- transferase activity encoded by the plasmid pGT5 from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1183-1192

  Marsin, Stéphanie ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PYROCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PLASMIDS; PYROCOCCUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0031884246     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00759.x     Document Type: Article

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