Characterization of endogenous plasmids from Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3216-3228

  Fang, Fang ^a,b   Flynn, Sarah ^a   Li, Yin ^a,b,c   Claesson, Marcus J ^a,b   Van Pijkeren, Jan Peter ^a,b   Collins, J Kevin ^a,b   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b   O'Toole, Paul W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOMES; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS;

ENDOGENOUS PLASMIDS; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMIDS; THETA REPLICATION MECHANISM;

BACTERIA;

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; PLASMID VECTOR;

BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ORDER; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS;

LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SALIVARIUS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LACTOBACILLUS; LUCIFERASES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; REPLICON;

EID: 44249089520     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02631-07     Document Type: Article

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