Structural and functional analysis of pt38, a 2.9 kb plasmid of Streptococcus thermophilus yogurt strain

Plasmid

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 176-189

  Petrova, Penka ^a   Miteva, Vanya ^a   Ruiz Masó, Jose Angel ^b   Del Solar, Gloria ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heat shock protein; Nt, nucleotide(s); Regulatory antisense RNA; Replication initiator protein; Rolling circle replicating plasmids; Streptococcus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; YOGHURT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0142246547     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(03)00064-7     Document Type: Article

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