Structure and Genetic Content of the Megaplasmids of Neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum Type E Strains from Italy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Iacobino, Angelo ^a   Scalfaro, Concetta ^a   Franciosa, Giovanna ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; HABITAT; ITALY; MEGAPLASMID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROPHAGE; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

CLOSTRIDIUM BUTYRICUM; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84881585216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071324     Document Type: Article

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