pIT3, a cryptic plasmid isolated from the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus IT3

Plasmid

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-45

  Prato, Santina ^a   Cannio, Raffaele ^b   Klenk, Hans Peter ^c   Contursi, Patrizia ^a   Rossi, Mosè ^b   Bartolucci, Simonetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic element; Plasmid; Sequence and functional analysis; Sulfolobus; Transcriptional analysis; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA PRIMASE; HELICASE; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS ENZYME; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33746557354     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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