Plasmids of corynebacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-20

  Deb, J K ^a   Nath, Niharika ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

PLASMID VECTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BREVIBACTERIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENETIC VECTORS; PLASMIDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CORYNEBACTERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032988781     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00104-4     Document Type: Review

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