A newly discovered Bacteroides conjugative transposon, CTnGERM1, contains genes also found in gram-positive bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4595-4603

  Wang, Yanping ^a   Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Shelby, Aikiesha ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS;

PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDES; CTNGERM1 GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSON;

BACTEROIDES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0043031234     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4595-4603.2003     Document Type: Article

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