Journal article
Identification of a megaplasmid centromere reveals genetic structural diversity within the repABC family of basic replicons
Abstract
The basic replication unit of many plasmids and second chromosomes in the alpha-proteobacteria consists of a repABC locus that encodes the trans- and cis-acting components required for both semiautonomous replication and replicon maintenance in a cell population. In terms of physical genetic organization and at the nucleotide sequence level, repABC loci are well conserved across various genera. As with all repABC-type replicons that have been …
Authors
MacLellan SR; Zaheer R; Sartor AL; MacLean AM; Finan TM
Journal
Molecular Microbiology, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1559–1575
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 2006
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05040.x
ISSN
0950-382X