The complete sequence and functional analysis of pANL, the large plasmid of the unicellular freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

Plasmid

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 176-192

  Chen, You ^a   Kay Holtman, C ^a   Magnuson, Roy D ^b   Youderian, Philip A ^a   Golden, Susan S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama in Huntsville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterial plasmid; Plasmid maintenance; Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942; Toxin antitoxin cassette

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PLASMID ANL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COSMIDS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFUR; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942;

EID: 41549086455     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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