The Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens tet(W) gene is carried on the novel conjugative transposon TnB1230, which contains duplicated nitroreductase coding sequences

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3656-3659

  Melville, Claire M ^a,b   Brunel, Romain ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a   Scott, Karen P ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENOMIC DNA; NITROREDUCTASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BUTYRIVIBRIO FIBRISOLVENS; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TETW GENE; TNB1230 GENE; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTYRIVIBRIO; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROREDUCTASES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUTYRIVIBRIO; BUTYRIVIBRIO FIBRISOLVENS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 2442639011     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.11.3656-3659.2004     Document Type: Article

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