Integration and excision of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis prophage-like element, φRv1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1515-1526

  Bibb, Lori A ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; INTEGRASE; PLASMID VECTOR; RECOMBINASE; SERINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; PROPHAGES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0036033757     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03130.x     Document Type: Article

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