Characterization of plasmids from human infant Bifidobacterium strains: Sequence analysis and construction of E. coli-Bifidobacterium shuttle vectors

Plasmid

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-148

  Shkoporov, Andrei N ^a   Efimov, Boris A ^a   Khokhlova, Ekaterina V ^a   Steele, James L ^b   Kafarskaia, Lyudmila I ^a   Smeianov, Vladimir V ^b  

^a PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium; Conjugation; Plasmids; Probiotics; Vectors

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM INFANTIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 49949104821     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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