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Streptomyces Linear Plasmids: Their Discovery, Functions, Interactions with Other Replicons, and Evolutionary Significance

  • Chater K
  • Kinashi H
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2007), 1-31
DOI: 10.1007/7171_2007_097
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Abstract

Unusually among bacteria, streptomycetes possess linear chromosomes, and many of them also carry linear plasmids (circular plasmids are also found). The linear plasmids range in size from tens to hundreds of kilobases. The most studied is SCP1, discovered as...

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Chater, K. F., & Kinashi, H. (2007). Streptomyces Linear Plasmids: Their Discovery, Functions, Interactions with Other Replicons, and Evolutionary Significance. In Microbial Linear Plasmids (pp. 1–31). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/7171_2007_097

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