Tn4371: A modular structure encoding a phage-like integrase, a Pseudomonas-like catabolic pathway, and RP4/Ti-like transfer functions

Plasmid

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-54

  Merlin, Christophe ^a   Springael, Dirk ^b   Toussaint, Ariane ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biphenyl degradation; Conjugation; Integrase; Ralstonia eutropha; Transposition

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; TRANSPOSON; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA EUTROPHA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0032905533     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1998.1375     Document Type: Article

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