Orientation specificity of the Lactococcus lactis Chi site

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 453-461

  El Karoui, Meriem ^a   Schaeffer, Matthieu ^a   Biaudet, Véronique ^a   Bolotin, Alexandre ^a   Sorokin, Alexeï ^a   Gruss, Alexandra ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE FREQUENCY; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033938553     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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