Use of an excision reporter plasmid to study the intracellular mobility of the conjugative transposon Tn916 in Gram-positive bacteria

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1253-1261

  Celli, Jean ^a   Poyart, Claire ^a   Trieu Cuot, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Conjugative transposons; Excision; Tn916

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030957098     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-4-1253     Document Type: Article

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