Isolation of a Minireplicon of the Virulence Plasmid pXO2 of Bacillus anthracis and Characterization of the Plasmid-Encoded RepS Replication Protein

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2717-2723

  Tinsley, Eowyn ^a   Naqvi, Asma ^a   Bourgogne, Agathe ^b   Koehler, Theresa M ^b   Khan, Saleem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; REPS REPLICATION PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPLICON; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 1942443599     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.9.2717-2723.2004     Document Type: Article

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