Independent acquisition of site-specific recombination factors by asn tRNA gene-targeting genomic islands

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 296, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 341-352

  Antonenka, Uladzimir ^a   Nölting, Christina ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a   Rakin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excisionase; High pathogenicity island; Recombination activity; Yersinia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; EXCISIONASE; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINASE; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIABACTIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CODON; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33748456768     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2006.02.021     Document Type: Article

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