Evidence that Tn5565, which includes the enterotoxin gene in Clostridium perfringens, can have a circular form which may be a transposition intermediate

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 281-286

  Brynestad, Sigrid ^a   Granum, Per Einar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Enterotoxin; IS1469; IS1470; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; ENTEROTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0032946075     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00557-6     Document Type: Article

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