Identification and characterization of IS-like elements in Mycobacterium gordonae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-102

  Picardeau, M ^a   Bull, T J ^b   Vincent, V ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insertion sequence; IS1512 sequencing; Mycobacterium gordonae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHODOCOCCUS; TRANSPOSON;

ACTINOMYCES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIACEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030929256     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00308-X     Document Type: Article

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