Structural and functional analysis of pCI65st, a 6.5 kb plasmid from Streptococcus thermophilus NDI-6

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-134

  O'Sullivan, Tadhg ^a   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a   Fitzgerald, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Enolase; Heat shock genes; Plasmid; Streptococcus thermophilus; Type I HsdS

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032953113     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-1-127     Document Type: Article

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