The genetic element pSSVx of the extremely thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus is a hybrid between a plasmid and a virus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-226

  Arnold, Hans Peter ^a,d   She, Qunxin ^b   Phan, Hien ^b   Stedman, Kenneth ^a   Prangishvili, David ^a   Holz, Ingelore ^a   Kristjansson, Jakob K ^c   Garrett, Roger ^b   Zillig, Wolfram ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d Epidauros Biotechnologie AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HELPER VIRUS; HYBRID; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPEN READING FRAME; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SULFOLOBUS; SUPERNATANT; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; VIRUS; VIRUS PURIFICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FUSELLOVIRIDAE; GENETIC VECTORS; HELPER VIRUSES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLAQUE ASSAY; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOLOBUS; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032828523     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01573.x     Document Type: Article

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