A site-specific recombinase (RinQ) is required to exert incompatibility towards the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium etli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1023-1032

  Quintero, Verónica ^a   Cevallos, Miguel A ^a   Dávila, Guillermo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE RINQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINASES; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSASES;

NEGIBACTERIA; PLASMID P42D; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 0036434923     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03205.x     Document Type: Article

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