Mycobacteriophage Bxb1 integrates into the Mycobacterium smegmatis groEL1 gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 463-473

  Kim, Amy I ^a   Ghosh, Pallavi ^a   Aaron, Michelle A ^a,b   Bibb, Lori A ^a   Jain, Shruti ^a,c   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE BXB 1; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENE LOCATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GROEL PROTEIN; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE BXB1; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0142062042     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03723.x     Document Type: Article

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