Transposition in Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus: Identification of two thermosensitive replicons and two functional insertion sequences

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1503-1511

  Serror, Pascale ^a   Ilami, Golnar ^a   Chouayekh, Hichem ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a   Maguin, Emmanuelle ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS BULGARICUS; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII SUBSP. BULGARICUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038818572     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25827-0     Document Type: Article

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