Characterization of replication and conjugation of Streptomyces circular plasmids pFP1 and pFP11 and their ability to propagate in linear mode with artificially attached telomeres

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3368-3376

  Zhang, Ran ^a   Zeng, Ana ^a   Fang, Ping ^b   Qin, Zhongjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SOCIETY; IN-VITRO; LINEAR MODES; SINGLE STRANDED DNA (SS DNA); STREPTOMYCES SPECIES; TELOMERES; TRANSLOCASE;

DNA; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FARM BUILDINGS; GENE ENCODING; GENES; HEALTH; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN REPA; PROTEIN TRAA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN STABILITY; STREPTOMYCES; TELOMERE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCES; TELOMERE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 44949187666     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00402-08     Document Type: Article

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