Plasmid rolling-circle replication: Recent developments

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 477-484

  Khan, Saleem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR;

DNA REPLICATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033868154     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02001.x     Document Type: Review

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