NBU1 integrase: Evidence for an altered recombination mechanism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 152-164

  Schmidt, John W ^a   Rajeev, Lara ^b   Salyers, Abigail A ^b   Gardner, Jeffrey F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; GENE PRODUCT; INTEGRASE; INTN1 PROTEIN; NBU1 INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATTN1 GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAMICRON; BIOASSAY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATID EXCHANGE; CROSSING OVER; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INTN1 GENE; NBU1 TRANSPOSON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33644833378     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05073.x     Document Type: Article

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