Bacteroides fragilis transfer factor Tn5520: The smallest bacterial mobilizable transposon containing single integrase and mobilization genes that function in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2564-2571

  Vedantam, Gayatri ^a   Novicki, Thomas J ^a,c   Hecht, David W ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032962959     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.8.2564-2571.1999     Document Type: Article

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