Novel structural difference between nopaline- and octopine-type trbJ genes: Construction of genetic and physical map and sequencing of trb/traI and rep gene clusters of a new Ti plasmid pTi-SAKURA

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1396, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Suzuki, Katsunori ^a   Ohta, Nobuyuki ^a   Hattori, Yoshiyuki ^a   Uraji, Misugi ^a   Kato, Akira ^b   Yoshida, Kazuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Natl Hokkaido Agric Exp Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOPALINE; OCTOPAMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

ARGININE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032481660     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(97)00182-6     Document Type: Article

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