Identification and characterization of conjugative transposons CTn86 and CTn9343 in Bacteroides fragilis strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-63

  Buckwold, Simy L ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^b   Sears, Cynthia L ^a   Franco, Augusto A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STRAIN;

ETBF STRAINS; GENETIC ELEMENTS; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND (PAI); PUTATIVE CONJUGATIVE TRANSPOSONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIUM; DNA; GENOMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSASES;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 33846181345     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01669-06     Document Type: Article

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