Structural peculiarities of linear megaplasmid, pLMA1, from Micrococcus luteus interfere with pyrosequencing reads assembly

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1853-1862

  Wagenknecht, Martin ^a   Dib, Julián R ^b   Thürmer, Andrea ^c   Daniel, Rolf ^c   Farías, María E ^b   Meinhardt, Friedhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PLANTA PILOTO DE PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES MICROBIOLÓGICOS PROIMI CONICET   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

454 Sequencing; Inverted repeats; Iteron; Linear plasmid; Micrococcus repetitive sequences; Transposase

Indexed keywords

454 SEQUENCING; INVERTED REPEAT; ITERON; LINEAR PLASMID; MICROCOCCUS REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; PLASMID;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPOSASES;

MICROCOCCUS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS;

EID: 78149415750     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0357-y     Document Type: Article

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