Two novel families of plasmids from hyperthermophilic archaea encoding new families of replication proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5088-5104

  Soler, Nicolas ^a   Marguet, Evelyne ^a   Cortez, Diego ^b   Desnoues, Nicole ^b   Keller, Jenny ^c   van Tilbeurgh, Herman ^c   Sezonov, Guennadi ^b,d   Forterre, Patrick ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE REPLICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PYROCOCCUS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOCOCCALES; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS NAUTILUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHANOCOCCALES; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOCOCCALES; NAUTILUS; PYROCOCCUS ABYSSI; PYROCOCCUS SP.; THERMOCOCCALES; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS SP. 26-2;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; METHANOCOCCALES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PYROCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS;

EID: 77953728602     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq236     Document Type: Article

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