Tn5041: A chimeric mercury resistance transposon closely related to the toluene degradative transposon Tn4651

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2549-2556

  Kholodii, G Ya ^a,b   Yurieva, O V ^a   Gorlenko, Zh M ^a   Mindlin, S Z ^a   Bass, I A ^a   Lomovskaya, O L ^a,c   Kopteva, A V ^a   Nikiforov, V G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Microcide Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrase; Mer operon; Tn3 family; Tn5041; Transposase

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; MERCURY; RECOMBINASE; REPETITIVE DNA; RESOLVASE; TOLUENE; TRANSPOSASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MINING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0030773901     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-8-2549     Document Type: Article

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