Circularization of Tn916 is required for expression of the transposon-encoded transfer functions: Characterization of long tetracycline-inducible transcripts reading through the attachment site

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-117

  Celli, Jean ^a   Trieu Cuot, Patrick ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031921950     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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