Molecular and biochemical analysis of the system regulating the lytic/lysogenic cycle in the pneumococcal temperate phage MM1

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-197

  Obregón, Virginia ^a   García, Pedro ^a   López, Rubens ^a   García, José L ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lytic lysogenic cycle; Phage repressor; Pneumococcus; Temperate phage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

PNEUMOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037721531     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00281-7     Document Type: Article

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