Construction and characterization of a Borrelia burgdorferi strain with conditional expression of the essential telomere resolvase, ResT

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2396-2404

  Bandy, Nicholas J ^a   Salman Dilgimen, Aydan ^a,b   Chaconas, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; RESOLVASE; TELOMERE RESOLVASE REST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESSENTIAL GENE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE INACTIVATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION;

EID: 84901992627     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01435-13     Document Type: Article

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