Genetic rearrangement of the atzAB atrazine-degrading gene cassette from pADP1::Tn5 to the chromosome of Variovorax sp. MD1 and MD2

Gene

Volumn 392, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Devers, Marion ^a   Rouard, Nadine ^a   Martin Laurent, Fabrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Atrazine; atz gene; Homologous recombination; Insertion sequence; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATZAB GENE; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON; VARIOVORAX;

ATRAZINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES;

VARIOVORAX;

EID: 33947578711     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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