Salmonella typhimurium specifies a circular chromosome dimer resolution system which is homologous to the Xer site-specific recombination system of Escherichia coli

Gene

Volumn 198, Issue 2 JAN, 1997, Pages 105-110

  Hayes, Finbarr ^a   Lubetzki, Sabine A ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cer; Gram negative bacteria; Integrase family; XerC recombinase; XerD recombinase

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030667841     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00299-0     Document Type: Article

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