Novel archaeal plasmid pAH1 and its interactions with the lipothrixvirus AFV1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-34

  Basta, Tamara ^a   Smyth, John ^b   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Prangishvili, David ^a   Peng, Xu ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ACIDIANUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPOTHRIXVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID PAH 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ACIDIANUS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, PLASTID; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LIPOTHRIXVIRIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

ACIDIANUS; ARCHAEA; LIPOTHRIXVIRUS; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 58149122981     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06488.x     Document Type: Article

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