fpr, a deficient Xer recombination site from a Salmonella plasmid, fails to confer stability by dimer resolution: Comparative studies with the pJHCMW1 mwr site

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 883-887

  Tran, Tung ^a,b   Sherratt, David J ^a   Tolmasky, Marcelo E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; FPR PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SALMONELLA; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SALMONELLA;

EID: 75149168543     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01082-09     Document Type: Article

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