Genetic analysis of a novel plasmid pZMX101 from Halorubrum saccharovorum: Determination of the minimal replicon and comparison with the related haloarchaeal plasmid pSCM201

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-108

  Zhou, Ligang ^a,b   Zhou, Meixian ^a,c   Sun, Chaomin ^a   Xiang, Hua ^a   Tan, Huarong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Haloarchaea; Minimal replicon; pZMX101; Shuttle vector

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; REPA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HALOARCULA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALORUBRUM; HALORUBRUM SACCHAROVORUM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

HALOARCULA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOFERAX; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HALORUBRUM SACCHAROVORUM;

EID: 34247131391     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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