Organization around the dnaA gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 433-439

  Gasc, Anne Marie ^a   Giammarinaro, Philippe ^a   Richter, Stefan ^b,c   Sicard, Michel ^a  

^a UPS   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

dnaA; DnaA boxes; dnaN; htrA; Replication origin; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031937326     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-2-433     Document Type: Article

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