Analysis of pMA67, a predicted rolling-circle replicating, mobilizable, tetracycline-resistance plasmid from the honey bee pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae

Plasmid

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-100

  Murray, K Daniel ^a   Aronstein, Katherine A ^a   de León, Jesse H ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Foulbrood; Paenibacillus larvae; Plasmid; Rolling circle replication; tetL; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COP PROTEIN; HELICASE; MOB PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TETL PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPLICON; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

APIS MELLIFERA; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34547733454     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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