Three insertion sequences from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 support the occurrence of horizontal DNA transfer among bacteria

Gene

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 257-266

  Cassier Chauvat, Corinne ^a   Poncelet, Mireille ^a   Chauvat, Franck ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Copy number; Horizontal transfer; IS4 family; Mobile elements; Target duplication; Tcl mariner

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PROBES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0030878556     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00165-0     Document Type: Article

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