Genomic and functional analysis of the IncP-9 naphthalene-catabolic plasmid NAH7 and its transposon Tn4655 suggests catabolic gene spread by a tyrosine recombinase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4057-4067

  Sota, Masahiro ^a,b,c   Yano, Hirokazu ^b   Ono, Akira ^b   Miyazaki, Ryo ^b   Ishii, Hidenori ^b   Genka, Hiroyuki ^b   Top, Eva M ^c   Tsuda, Masataka ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INCP 9 GENE; NAPHTHALENE CATABOLIC PLASMID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID NAH7; PLASMID PDTG1; PLASMID PWW0; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA G7; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN4655;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHALENES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 33744718828     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00185-06     Document Type: Article

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