Mobile elements of an Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 85-MDa plasmid involved in replicon fusions

Plasmid

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-29

  Katsy, Elena I ^a   Prilipov, Alexei G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Azospirillum brasilense; IS element; Phage integrase; Plasmid cointegrate

Indexed keywords

PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEIN P85;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASTICITY; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BASE SEQUENCE; INTEGRASES; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE;

EID: 67349130545     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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