Conservation and diversity in the immunity regions of wild phages with the immunity specificity of phage λ

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 232-244

  Degnan, Patrick H ^a   Michalowski, Christine B ^b   Babić, Andrea C ^b   Cordes, Matthew H J ^b   Little, John W ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN CII; REGULATOR PROTEIN N; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; IMMUNITY; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 33947320741     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05650.x     Document Type: Article

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