Regulated site-specific recombination of the she pathogenicity island of Shigella flexneri

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1329-1336

  Sakellaris, Harry ^a   Luck, Shelley M ^a   Al Hasani, Keith ^a,b   Rajakumar, Kumar ^a,c   Turner, Sally A ^a   Adler, Ben ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE ASSOCIATION; CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, TRANSFER, PHE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 2942594633     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04048.x     Document Type: Article

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