Characterization of a cryptic plasmid from Bacillus sphaericus strain LP1-G

Plasmid

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 296-305

  Wu, Enying ^a,b   Jun, Liang ^a   Yuan, Yongming ^a   Yan, Jianping ^a   Berry, Colin ^c   Yuan, Zhiming ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus sphaericus; Cryptic plasmid; Replication initiator protein; Rolling circle replication; ssDNA

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE; NUCLEASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUNG BEAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; VIGNA RADIATA VAR. RADIATA;

EID: 34247176331     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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