Identification of a new gene in the streptococcal plasmid pLS1: The rnaI gene

Plasmid

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 214-224

  Acebo, Paloma ^a   Hernández Arriaga, Ana M ^a   Kramer, M Gabriela ^a   Espinosa, Manuel ^a   Del Solar, Gloria ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Plasmid copy number; Rolling circle replication; Single stranded DNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RNA GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0344110434     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1370     Document Type: Article

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