Putative mechanism of natural transformation as deduced from genome data

DNA Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 75-82

  Yura, Kei ^a   Toh, Hiroyuki ^b   Go, Mitiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BIOMOL ENG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D keynote; Endonuclease; Natural transformation; Phosphate binding module; Synechocystis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033617043     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/6.2.75     Document Type: Article

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