Comparative analysis of 18 sex pheromone plasmids from Enterococcus faecalis: Detection of a new insertion element on pPD1 and implications for the evolution of this plasmid family

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 640-647

  Hirt, Helmut ^a,b   Wirth, Reinhard ^a   Muscholl, Albrecht ^a  

^a Institut für Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^b Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecalis; Insertion element IS1062; Plasmid evolution; Sex pheromone plasmids

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029911897     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050272     Document Type: Article

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