The biphenyl- and 4-chlorobiphenyl-catabolic transposon Tn4371, a member of a new family of genomic islands related to IncP and Ti plasmids

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4837-4845

  Toussaint, Ariane ^a   Merlin, Christophe ^e,f   Monchy, Sébastien ^a,b   Benotmane, M Abderrafi ^b   Leplae, Raphaël ^a   Mergeay, Max ^b,c   Springael, Dirk ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; GENES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PLASMIDS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

4 CHLOROBIPHENYL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIOPHAGE INTEGRASE; BIPHENYL; GENE PRODUCT; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; TRAG ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TYPE IV SECRETION MATING PAIR FORMATION APPARATUS; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACHROMOBACTER; ACHROMOBACTER GEORGIOPOLITANUM KKS102; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CATABOLISM; ERWINIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; PLASMID INCP; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA METALLIDURANS CH34; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; TI PLASMID; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN4371;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT TUMOR-INDUCING PLASMIDS; PLASMIDS; TERMINOLOGY;

ACHROMOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; TRANSPOSONS; WAUTERSIA METALLIDURANS;

EID: 0038018390     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4837-4845.2003     Document Type: Article

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