Requirements for Borrelia burgdorferi plasmid maintenance

Plasmid

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Tilly, Kit ^a   Checroun, Claire ^a,b   Rosa, Patricia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Resodyn Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

MiniF; Plasmid stability; Spirochete

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BBB10 GENE; BBB11 GENE; BBB12 GENE; BBB13 GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CP26 GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPLICATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TRANS ISOMER;

BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84861724258     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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