In situ inversion of the conjugative transposon Tn916 in Enterococcus faecium DPC3675

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 265-271

  O'Keeffe, Triona ^a   Hill, Colin ^a   Ross, R Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Dairy Quality Department   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Coupling sequence; Inversion; Target sequence; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DNA DETERMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033003127     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00084-1     Document Type: Article

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