R391: A conjugative integrating mosaic comprised of phage, plasmid, and transposon elements

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 5158-5169

  Böltner, Dietmar ^a   MacMahon, Claire ^a   Pembroke, J Tony ^a   Strike, Peter ^a   Osborn, A Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN; MERCURY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; R FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; PROVIDENCIA; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; SALMONELLA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0036723852     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.18.5158-5169.2002     Document Type: Article

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