Functional analysis of replication and stability regions of broad-host-range conjugative plasmid CTX-M3 from the IncL/M incompatibility group

Plasmid

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-107

  Mierzejewska, Jolanta ^a   Kulińska, Anna ^a   Jagura Burdzy, Grazyna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Mosaic structure; pCTX M3 plasmid; Replication; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33847320038     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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