Gene arrangement and organization in a ~ 76 kb fragment: Encompassing the oriC region of the chromosome of Mycobacterium leprae

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3147-3161

  Fsihi, Hafida ^a   De Rossi, Edda ^a,b   Salazar, Leiria ^a,c   Cantoni, Rita ^b   Labò, Monica ^b   Riccardi, Giovanna ^b   Takiff, Howard E ^c   Eiglmeier, Karin ^a   Bergh, Staffan ^a,d   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium leprae; oriC region; Penicillin binding proteins; Protein kinases; tRNA genes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIVISION; DNA METABOLISM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RNA GENE; RNA METABOLISM; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 10544243786     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-11-3147     Document Type: Article

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