Genomic characterization of lytic Staphylococcus aureus phage GH15: Providing new clues to intron shift in phages

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 94, Issue PART4, 2013, Pages 906-915

  Gu, Jingmin ^a   Liu, Xiaohe ^a   Yang, Mei ^a   Li, Yue ^a   Sun, Changjiang ^a   Lu, Rong ^a   Song, Jun ^a   Zhang, Qingming ^a   Lei, Liancheng ^a   Feng, Xin ^a   Du, Chongtao ^a   Yu, Hao ^a   Yang, Yongjun ^a   Han, Wenyu ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE GH15; CODON USAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; INTRON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION SITE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS MYOVIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS;

EID: 84875654157     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.049197-0     Document Type: Article

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