Design and synthesis of a quintessential self-transmissible IncX1 plasmid, pX1.0

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hansen, Lars H ^a   Bentzon Tilia, Mikkel ^a   Bentzon Tilia, Sara ^a   Norman, Anders ^a   Rafty, Louise ^b   Sørensen, Søren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DNA20 Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC LOAD; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PX1.0 PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS;

EID: 79956227193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019912     Document Type: Article

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