Characterization of the dsDNA prophage sequences in the genome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and visualization of productive bacteriophage

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Piekarowicz, Andrzej ^a   Kłyz, Aneta ^a   Majchrzak, Michał ^a   Adamczyk Popławska, Monika ^a   Maugel, Timothy K ^c   Stein, Daniel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PSEUDOMONAS PHAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROPHAGES; PSEUDOMONAS PHAGES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 34547121453     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-66     Document Type: Article

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