A new tubRZ operon involved in the maintenance of the Bacillus sphaericus mosquitocidal plasmid pBsph

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue PART 6, 2014, Pages 1112-1124

  Ge, Yong ^a,b   Hu, Xiaomin ^a   Zhao, Ni ^a   Shi, Tingyu ^a   Cai, Quanxin ^a   Yuan, Zhiming ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BIN TOXIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TAQ POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYSINIBACILLUS SPHAERICUS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TUBRZ OPERON;

EID: 84901720027     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.075465-0     Document Type: Article

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