SCP1, a 356 023 bp linear plasmid adapted to the ecology and developmental biology of its host, Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1615-1628

  Bentley, S D ^a   Brown, S ^a   Murphy, L D ^a   Harris, D E ^a   Quail, M A ^a   Parkhill, J ^a   Barrell, B G ^a   McCormick, J R ^b,d   Santamaria, R I ^c,d   Losick, R ^d   Yamasaki, M ^e   Kinashi, H ^e   Chen, C W ^f   Chandra, G ^g   Jakimowicz, D ^g   Kieser, H M ^g   Kieser, T ^g   Chater, K F ^g  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica and Departamento de Microbiología y Genética   (Spain)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GENE PRODUCT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; SAPC PROTEIN; SAPD PROTEIN; SAPE PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SPORE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLDA GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCP1 GENE; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 12144290502     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03949.x     Document Type: Article

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