Involvement of antisense RNA in replication control of the lactococcal plasmid pND324

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 419-426

  Duan, Kangmin ^a   Liu, Chun Qiang ^a   Supple, Shane ^a   Dunn, Noel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

ctRNA; Lactococcus lactis; Plasmid replication; pND324

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DOSAGE; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 0032527770     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00248-1     Document Type: Article

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