Sequence analysis of plasmid pTS1 isolated from oral spirochetes

Plasmid

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-65

  Chauhan, Sarita ^a,b   Kuramitsu, Howard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Iterons; mob; Periodontitis; rep; Spirochetes; Treponema denticola

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIROCHETE; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 0346997963     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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