Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence repeats in yersiniae: Genomic organization and functional properties

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 7945-7954

  De Gregorio, Eliana ^a   Silvestro, Giustina ^a   Petrillo, Mauro ^b   Carlomagno, Maria Stella ^a   Di Nocera, Pier Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; DINUCLEOTIDE; LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; PERMEASE; PHOSPHATE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE INSERTION; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; STOP CODON; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 28044466642     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.23.7945-7954.2005     Document Type: Article

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