The Bacteroides mobilizable insertion element, NBU1, integrates into the 3′ end of a leu-tRNA gene and has an integrase that is a member of the lambda integrase family

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3594-3600

  Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; POSIBACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

INTEGRASE; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTEROIDES; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029890508     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.12.3594-3600.1996     Document Type: Article

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