Structure and function of 59-base element recombination sites associated with mobile gene cassettes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 731-745

  Stokes, H W ^a   O'Gorman, D B ^a   Recchia, Gavin D ^a,b   Parsekhian, Maryam ^a   Hall, Ruth M ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTEGRON; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0030698334     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.6091980.x     Document Type: Article

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