Presence of a family of plasmids (29 to 65 kilobases) with a 26-kilobase common region in different strains of the sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Acidithiobacillus caldus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4300-4308

  Van Zyl, Leonard J ^a   Deane, Shelly M ^a   Louw, Lilly Ann ^a   Rawlings, Douglas E ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; GENES; NONMETALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STRAIN; SULFUR; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; AMERICAN SOCIETY; ARSENIC RESISTANCE; AUSTRALIA; CRYPTIC PLASMIDS; GENES CODING; IN-VITRO; INSERTION SEQUENCE (IS); KANAMYCIN (KM); PLASMID STABILITY; RESTRICTION MODIFICATION; SOUTH AFRICA (SA); SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM (SOB);

HEALTH;

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARSENIC; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; OXIDATION; PLASMID; SULFUR;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REPLICON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; TRANSPOSON;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 47749104210     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00864-08     Document Type: Article

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