Characterization of the transcriptional activity of the cryptic plasmid pRN1 from Sulfolobus islandicus REN1H1 and regulation of its replication operon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1711-1721

  Berkner, Silvia ^a   Lipps, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SULFOLOBUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CRENARCHAEOTA; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

EID: 33947381428     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01586-06     Document Type: Article

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