Control of phage Bxb1 excision by a novel recombination directionality factor

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0964-0974

  Ghosh, Pallavi ^a   Wasil, Laura R ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; PROTEIN BXB1; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS PROTEIN GP47; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; REACTION ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM PHAGE BXB1; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 33745192630     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040186     Document Type: Article

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