Transfection of haloarchaea by the DNAs of spindle and round haloviruses and the use of transposon mutagenesis to identify non-essential regions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1236-1245

  Porter, Kate ^a   Dyall Smith, Michael L ^b  

^a Biota Holdings Ltd   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; VIRUS DNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA BINDING; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME SIZE; HALOARCHAEA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ARCHAEA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOVIRUSES;

EID: 55349085095     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06478.x     Document Type: Article

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