Characterization of a novel plasmid from extremely halophilic Archaea: Nucleotide sequence and function analysis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-57

  Ye, Xuecheng ^a   Ou, Jianhong ^a   Ni, Lina ^a   Shi, Wanliang ^a   Shen, Ping ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Curing; Halobacterium salinarum; Plasmid pHH205; Sequence and function analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; INSERTION SEQUENCES; VECTORS;

EID: 0037432696     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00175-7     Document Type: Article

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