Comparative and evolutionary analysis of plasmid pREN isolated from Lactobacillus rennini, a novel member of the theta-replicating pUCL287 family

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 318, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-26

  Asteri, Ioanna Areti ^a,b   Papadimitriou, Konstantinos ^a,b   Boutou, Effrossyni ^b   Pot, Bruno ^c   Vorgias, Constantinos E ^b   Tsakalidou, Effie ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Applied Maths NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Lactobacillus; Mob; Operon; Ori; Plasmid; Rep

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARRIER PROTEIN; MOBA1 PROTEIN; MOBA2 PROTEIN; MOBB PROTEIN; MOBC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEESE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS RENNINI; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHEESE; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS RENNINI;

EID: 79953303825     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02232.x     Document Type: Letter

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