In vitro analysis of sequence requirements for the excision reaction of the Bacteroides conjugative transposon, CTnDOT

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1035-1048

  DiChiara, Jeanne M ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a   Gardner, Jeffrey F ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTEROIDES;

EID: 18444382333     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04585.x     Document Type: Article

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