The essential nature of the ubiquitous 26-kilobase circular replicon of Borrelia burgdorferi

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3561-3569

  Byram, Rebecca ^a,b   Stewart, Philip E ^a   Rosa, Patricia ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BBB29 GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL VIABILITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC CODE; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPLICON; REST GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENETIC VECTORS; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2442645223     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.11.3561-3569.2004     Document Type: Article

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