NikAB- or NikB-dependent intracellular recombination between tandemly repeated oriT sequences of plasmid R64 in plasmid or single-stranded phage vectors

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 3871-3877

  Furuya, Nobuhisa ^a   Komano, Teruya ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN NIKA; PROTEIN NIKB; PROTEIN ORIT; PROTEIN RELAXOSOME; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLIPHAGES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; R FACTORS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038039152     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.13.3871-3877.2003     Document Type: Article

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