Site-specific integration of the conjugal Vibrio cholerae SXT element into prfC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-110

  Hochhut, Bianca ^a   Waldor, Matthew K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA INTEGRATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032910190     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01330.x     Document Type: Article

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