The unconventional xer recombination machinery of Streptococci/Lactococci

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1190-1199

  Le Bourgeois, Pascal ^a   Bugarel, Marie ^a   Campo, Nathalie ^b   Daveran Mingot, Marie Line ^a   Labonté, Jessica ^a   Lanfranchi, Daniel ^a   Lautier, Thomas ^a   Pagès, Carine ^a   Ritzenthaler, Paul ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINASE XER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMICS; INTEGRASES; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34547645075     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030117     Document Type: Article

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