Lateral transfer of the lux gene cluster

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-237

  Kasai, Sabu ^a   Okada, Kazuhisa ^b   Hoshino, Akinori ^a   Iida, Tetsuya ^b   Honda, Takeshi ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Photobacterium phosphoreum; Photorhabdus luminescens; Transfer of the lux operon; Vibrio cholerae; Vibrio fischeri

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; LUX GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEWANELLA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOTOBACTERIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEWANELLA; VIBRIO;

PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; POSIBACTERIA; SHEWANELLA HANEDAI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 34248662454     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvm023     Document Type: Article

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