Primary structure of the DNA polymerase I gene of an α- proteobacterium, Rhizobium leguminosarum, and comparison with other family a DNA polymerases

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 355-359

  Huang, Yi Ping ^a   Downie, J Allan ^b   Ito, Junetsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; EXONUCLEASE; NUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMUS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; THERMUS AQUATICUS; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0032997204     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006816     Document Type: Article

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