Isolation and molecular characterization of pMG160, a mobilizable cryptic plasmid from Rhodobacter blasticus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 725-733

  Inui, Masayuki ^a   Nakata, Kaori ^a   Roh, Jung Hyeob ^a,b   Vertès, Alain A ^a   Yukawa, Hideaki ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEINS;

SEGREGATIONAL INSTABILITY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; PROTEIN MOBL; PROTEIN MOBS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; PLASMID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER BLASTICUS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOCYCLUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; RUBRIVIVAX GELATINOSUS; VECTORS;

EID: 0037312938     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.725-733.2003     Document Type: Article

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