The high-pathogenicity island of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis can be inserted into any of the three chromosomal asn tRNA genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 965-978

  Buchrieser, Carmen ^a   Brosch, Roland ^a   Bach, Sandrine ^a   Guiyoule, Annie ^a   Carniel, Elisabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEROTYPING; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031739010     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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