Molecular keys of the tropism of integration of the cholera toxin phage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4377-4382

  Das, Bhabatosh ^a,b   Bischerour, Julien ^a,b   Val, Marie Eve ^a,b   Barre, François Xavier ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Lysogenic conversion; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIMER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHOLERA; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77749297944     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910212107     Document Type: Article

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