Transposition and target specificity of the typical IS30 family element IS1655 from Neisseria meningitidis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1731-1747

  Kiss, János ^a,b   Nagy, Zita ^a,b,c   Tóth, Gábor ^a   Kiss, György Botond ^a   Jakab, Júlia ^a,d   Chandler, Michael ^b   Olasz, Ferenc ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^d National Institute of Food Hygiene and Nutrition Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PALINDROMIC DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INVERTED REPEAT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; TRANSPOSASES;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 33947237837     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05621.x     Document Type: Article

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