Structure of the chromosomal insertion site for pSAM2: Functional analysis in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 333-342

  Raynal, Alain ^a   Tuphile, Karine ^a   Gerbaud, Claude ^a   Luther, Tatjana ^a   Guérineau, Michel ^a   Pernodet, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOMYCES;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES AMBOFACIENS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031953726     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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