Interruption of the Streptococcus gordonii M5 sspA/sspB intergenic region by an insertion sequence related to IS1167 of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2047-2055

  Demuth, Donald R ^a   Duan, Yang ^a   Jenkinson, Howard F ^b   McNab, Rod ^b   Gil, Sucheol ^c   Lamont, Richard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Insertion sequence; sspB; Streptococcus gordonii

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; EXTENSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030878412     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-6-2047     Document Type: Article

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