Diversity in the lysis-integration region of oenophage genomes and evidence for multiple tRNA loci, as targets for prophage integration in Oenococcus oeni

Virology

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 82-95

  São José, Carlos ^a   Santos, Susana ^a   Nascimento, João ^a   Brito Madurro, Ana Graci ^a,c   Parreira, Ricardo ^b   Santos, Mário Almeida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endolysin; Holin; Integrase; Lactic acid bacteria; Lysogenic conversions; Oenococcus; Phage genomics; Phage lysis; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

SECRETORY PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OENOCOCCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENOME, VIRAL; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; LEUCONOSTOC; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, TRANSFER; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; OENOCOCCUS; OENOCOCCUS OENI;

EID: 3042658408     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.04.029     Document Type: Article

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