Mercury resistance transposons of Gram-negative environmental bacteria and their classification

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 811-822

  Mindlin, Sofia ^a   Kholodii, Gennady ^a   Gorlenko, Zhosefine ^a   Minakhina, Svetlana ^a   Minakhin, Leonid ^a   Kalyaeva, Eza ^a   Kopteva, Alexandra ^a   Petrova, Maya ^a   Yurieva, Olga ^a,b   Nikiforov, Vadim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mer operon; Recombinant transposons; Tn21 subgroup; Tn3 family; Tn5041; Tn5044; Tn5046; Tn5053; Tn5056; Tn5070

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; EUROPE; GENE PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSPOSON; UNITED STATES;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034773492     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(01)01265-7     Document Type: Article

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