Characterization of the cryptic plasmid pBGR1 from Bartonella grahamii and construction of a versatile Escherichia coli-Bartonella spp. shuttle cloning vector

Plasmid

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-52

  Seubert, Anja ^a   Falch, Christine ^b   Birtles, Richard J ^c   Schulein, Ralf ^a   Dehio, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Bartonella spp.; Cryptic plasmid; Mob; OriT; OriV; Rep; Shuttle cloning vector

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; HELICASE; PROTEIN MOB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA GRAHAMII; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA GRAHAMII; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA TRIBOCORUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED CLONING VECTOR; VECTORS;

EID: 0345270012     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00103-8     Document Type: Article

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