Linear plasmids mobilize linear but not circular chromosomes in Streptomyces: Support for the 'end first' model of conjugal transfer

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2556-2568

  Lee, Hsuan Hsuan ^a   Hsu, Chin Chen ^a   Lin, Yen Ling ^a   Chen, Carton W ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REPLICON; STREPTOMYCES;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENE TARGETING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOMYCES; TELOMERE;

POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 80052363999     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051441-0     Document Type: Article

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