Genomic organization of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans: Physical map and evidence for multiple replicons

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 151-157

  Kikuchi, Masahiro ^a   Narumi, Issay ^a   Kitayama, Shigeru ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^a,c  

^a TAKASAKI ADVANCED RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deinococcus radiodurans; Physical map; Radioresistance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MONOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DNA REPAIR; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REPLICON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS;

EID: 0032901927     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00135-4     Document Type: Article

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