Integration and excision of a newly discovered Bacteroides conjugative transposon, CTnBST

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1072-1082

  Wesslund, Neil A ^a   Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Song, Bo ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; INTEGRASE; RECOMBINASE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME; CONJUGATIVE TRANSPOSON; CONJUGATIVE TRANSPOSON BST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ERMB GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSTBST GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTEROIDES;

EID: 33846570084     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01064-06     Document Type: Article

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