Multiple gene products and sequences required for excision of the mobilizable integrated Bacteroides element NBU1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 928-936

  Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b B103 CLSL ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTEROIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033964893     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.4.928-936.2000     Document Type: Article

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