Bacillus subtilis soil isolates: Plasmid replicon analysis and construction of a new theta-replicating vector

Plasmid

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-62

  Titok, M A ^a   Chapuis, J ^b   Selezneva, Y V ^a   Lagodich, A V ^a   Prokulevich, V A ^a   Ehrlich, S D ^b   Janniere L ^b  

^a BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Cloning vectors; DnaA protein; Plasmid; Replication region; Rolling circle; Segregational stability; Soil isolates; Theta

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BYELARUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR; VECTORS;

EID: 0345616435     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00109-9     Document Type: Article

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