Structure analysis of a class II transposon encoding the mercury resistance of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus megaterium MB1, a strain isolated from Minamata Bay, Japan

Gene

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 361-369

  Huang, Chieh Chen ^a,b   Narita, Masaru ^b   Yamagata, Takeshi ^b   Itoh, Yukihiro ^b   Endo, Ginro ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Tohoku Gakuin University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Group II intron; Mercury resistance operon; TnMERI1

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MERCURY; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTRON; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON; UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; JAPAN; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSON RESOLVASES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033035757     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00184-5     Document Type: Article

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