Novel RepA-MCM proteins encoded in plasmids pTAU4, pORA1 and pTIK4 from Sulfolobus neozealandicus

Archaea

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 319-325

  Greve, Bo ^a   Jensen, Susanne ^a   Phan, Hoa ^a   Brügger, Kim ^a   Zillig, Wolfram ^b   She, Qunxin ^a   Garrett, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Crenarchaeal plasmid; DNA replicase; MCM protein

Indexed keywords

SULFOLOBUS;

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFOLOBUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; DNA, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 20144366619     PISSN: 14723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2005/159218     Document Type: Article

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