Transposases are responsible for the target specificity of IS1397 and ISKpn1 for two different types of palindromic units (PUs)

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4345-4353

  Wilde, Caroline ^a   Escartin, Frédéric ^a   Kokeguchi, Susumu ^b   Latour Lambert, Patricia ^a   Lectard, Aude ^a   Clément, Jean Marie ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0041660964     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg494     Document Type: Article

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