IS903 transposase mutants that suppress defective inverted repeats

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1183-1195

  Tavakoli, Norma P ^a   Derbyshire, Keith M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; TRANSPOSASE;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033001643     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01260.x     Document Type: Article

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