The circle is broken: Telomere resolution in linear replicons

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 558-564

  Kobryn, Kerri ^a   Chaconas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENZYME; RESOLVASE;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; NONHUMAN; POXVIRUS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPLICON; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

EID: 0034788112     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00251-4     Document Type: Review

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