Structure, function, and evolution of linear replicons in Borrelia

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2010, Pages 185-202

  Chaconas, George ^a   Kobryn, Kerri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

hairpin telomere; linear DNA; protelomerase; telomere resolution; telomere resolvase

Indexed keywords

RESOLVASE; REST ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BORRELIA; DNA HAIRPIN; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REPLICON; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICON; TELOMERE;

BORRELIA;

EID: 77957932997     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.112408.134037     Document Type: Review

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