Characterization of the replication region of the lactobacillus reuteri plasmid pTC82 Potentially Used in the Construction of cloning Vector

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1495-1503

  Lin, Chuen Fu ^a   Ho, Jin Li ^a   Chung, Tung Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Indigenous plasmid; Lactobacillus reuteri; pC194 family; Rep protein; Replication region

Indexed keywords

LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI;

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELICASE; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0035408985     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.1495     Document Type: Article

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