Characterization of two alternative promoters for integrase expression in the clc genomic island of Pseudomonas sp. strain B13

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-104

  Sentchilo, V ^a   Zehnder, A J B ^a   Van Der Meer, J R ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 CHLOROCATECHOL; AMINO ACID; CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATECHOLS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0038046819     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03548.x     Document Type: Article

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