Positioning and the specific sequence of each 13-mer motif are critical for activity of the plasmid RK2 replication origin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1439-1449

  Kowalczyk, Lukasz ^a   Rajewska, Magdalena ^a   Konieczny, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INITIATION FACTOR; PROTEIN; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; TRFA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 23844461144     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04770.x     Document Type: Article

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