Neisseria gonorrhoeae contains multiple copies of a gene that may encode a site-specific recombinase and is associated with DNA rearrangements

Gene

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 21-29

  Carrick, Catherine S ^a   Fyfe, Janet A M ^a   Davies, John K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gonococcus; Inversion; piv; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; DNA; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE NUMBER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORAXELLA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032487409     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00424-7     Document Type: Article

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