Functional analysis of a small cryptic plasmid pYS1 from Nocardia

Plasmid

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-37

  Shibayama, Youtaro ^a   Dabbs, Eric R ^a   Yazawa, Katsukiyo ^b   Mikami, Yuzuru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nocardia; Rolling circle replication; Single stranded origin; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN KORA; PROTEIN ORF1; PROTEIN ORF3; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE PROBE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA AOBENSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NOCARDIA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA AOBENSIS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 79958032684     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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