Insertion with long target duplication: A mechanism for gene mobility suggested from comparison of two related bacterial genomes

Gene

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 99-108

  Nobusato, Ayaka ^a   Uchiyama, Ikuo ^b   Ohashi, Seishi ^a   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Genome polymorphism; Genome rearrangements; Helicobacter pylori; Neisseria meningitidis; Pathogenicity island; Restriction modification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0034707190     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00456-X     Document Type: Article

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