Separate roles of Escherichia coli replication proteins in synthesis and partitioning of pSC101 plasmid DNA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 7552-7557

  Miller, Christine ^a   Cohen, Stanley N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; REPLICATION PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REPLICON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032796306     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.24.7552-7557.1999     Document Type: Article

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