Analysis of the replication region of the cryptic plasmid pHE1 from the moderate halophile Halomonas elongata

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 851-861

  Vargas, C ^a   Tegos, G ^b   Drainas, C ^b   Ventosa, A ^a   Nieto, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA control; Halomonas elongata; Moderate halophiles; Plasmid replication

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; HALOMONAS ELONGATA; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROTEINS; REPLICON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033065149     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050029     Document Type: Article

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