Identification of three noncontiguous regions on Bacillus anthracis plasmid pXO1 that are important for its maintenance

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2921-2933

  Pomerantsev, Andrei P ^a   Chang, Zanetta ^a   Rappole, Catherine ^a   Leppla, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; PROTEIN PARB; PROTEIN SOJP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PXO1 GENE; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84904437681     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01747-14     Document Type: Article

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