Analyzing DNA strand compositional asymmetry to identify candidate replication origins of Borrelia burgdorferi linear and circular plasmids

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1594-1604

  Picardeau, Mathieu ^a,c   Lobry, Jean R ^b   Hinnebusch, B Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033790620     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.124000     Document Type: Article

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