Mobile DNA elements in the gas vesicle gene cluster of the planktonic cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-34

  Mlouka, Alyssa ^a   Comte, Katia ^a   Tandeau De Marsac, Nicole ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Insertion sequences; IS1; IS4 and IS5 families; Strains PCC 7806 and PCC 9354; Translational frameshift; Transposases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA PROBE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPOSASES;

CYANOBACTERIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 3242755884     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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