Detection and analysis of transpositionally active head-to-tail dimers in three additional Escherichia coli IS elements

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1297-1310

  Szeverényi, Ildikó ^a,b   Nagy, Zita ^a   Farkas, Tibor ^a   Olasz, Ferenc ^a   Kiss, János ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DIMER;

BACTERIAL GENE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 18544392419     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26121-0     Document Type: Review

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