New single-copy mycobacterial plasmid, pMF1, from Mycobacterium fortuitum which is compatible with the pAL5000 replicon

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 297-303

  Bachrach, Gilad ^a,c   Colston, M Joseph ^a   Bercovier, Herve ^b   Bar Nir, Dror ^b   Anderson, Colin ^a   Papavinasasundaram, K G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Copy number; Incompatibility; Mycobacterial plasmid pMF1; Resolvase; Stability

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CELATUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CELATUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM;

EID: 0033983744     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-2-297     Document Type: Article

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