Simple sequence repeats in the Helicobacter pylori genome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1091-1098

  Saunders, Nigel J ^a   Peden, John F ^b   Hood, Derek W ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DATA BASE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA RESTRICTION; DNA SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031931361     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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