A unique, bifunctional site-specific DNA recombinase from Mycoplasma pulmonis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1033-1040

  Sitaraman, Ramakrishnan ^a,c   Denison, Amy M ^b   Dybvig, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HSVR; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CATALYST; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LIPOPROTEINS; MUTATION; MYCOPLASMA; RECOMBINASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS;

EID: 0036433496     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03206.x     Document Type: Article

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