Two novel conjugative plasmids from a single strain of Sulfolobus

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1951-1968

  Erauso, Gaël ^a,b   Stedman, Kenneth M ^c,d   van den Werken, Harmen J G ^a   Zillig, Wolfram ^c   van der Oost, John ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 33746039325     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28861-0     Document Type: Article

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