Analysis of the ColE1 stability determinant Rcd

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2135-2144

  Sharpe, Michaela E ^a,b   Chatwin, Heather M ^a   Macpherson, Cindy ^a   Withers, Helen L ^a,c   Summers, David K ^a  

^a Department of Genetics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anti sense RNA; Cell cycle; ColE1; Dimer resolution; Plasmid stability

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032845469     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-8-2135     Document Type: Article

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