Conjugative transfer of clostridial shuttle vectors from Escherichia coli to Clostridium difficile through circumvention of the restriction barrier

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 439-452

  Purdy, Des ^a   O'Keeffe, Triona A T ^a   Elmore, Michael ^a   Herbert, Mike ^a   McLeod, Anne ^a   Bokori Brown, Monika ^a   Ostrowski, Anna ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME CDIL; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR; VECTORS;

EID: 0036430107     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03134.x     Document Type: Article

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