Excision and transfer of the Mesorhizobium loti R7A symbiosis island requires an integrase IntS, a novel recombination directionality factor RdfS, and a putative relaxase RlxS

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 723-734

  Ramsay, Joshua P ^a   Sullivan, John T ^a   Stuart, Gabriella S ^a   Lamont, Iain L ^a   Ronson, Clive W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; INTEGRASE; PROTEIN INTS; PROTEIN RDFS; PROTEIN RLXS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTS GENE; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHETRNA GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; RDFS GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RLXS GENE; RNA GENE; TRAL2 GENE; TRAR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHIZOBIACEAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 33750015243     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05396.x     Document Type: Article

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