Excision of IS492 requires flanking target sequences and results in circle formation in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 4937-4948

  Perkins Balding, Donna ^a   Duval Valentin, Guy ^b   Glasgow, Anna C ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Rollins Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIRCULAR DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

PSEUDOALTEROMONAS ATLANTICA;

EID: 0032816640     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.16.4937-4948.1999     Document Type: Article

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