Interplay between the temperate phages PY54 and N15, linear plasmid prophages with covalently closed ends

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 8366-8370

  Hammerl, Jens A ^a,c   Klein, Iris ^b   Appel, Bernd ^a   Hertwig, Stefan ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; COR GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LYSOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; VIRAL PROTEINS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 36549074646     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01066-07     Document Type: Article

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