Identification of a Single Strand Origin of Replication in the Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEBs1 of Bacillus subtilis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Wright, Laurel D ^a   Johnson, Christopher M ^a   Grossman, Alan D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ICEBS1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

EID: 84946606580     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005556     Document Type: Article

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