The ICESt1 element of Streptococcus thermophilus belongs to a large family of integrative and conjugative elements that exchange modules and change their specificity of integration

Plasmid

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 77-97

  Burrus, Vincent ^a   Pavlovic, Guillaume ^a   Decaris, Bernard ^a   Guédon, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugative transposon; Horizontal transfer; Integrative element; Modular evolution; Streptococcus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSPOSON;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036425161     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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