Integration site selection by the bacteroides conjugative transposon CTnBST

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 6594-6601

  Song, Bo ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Gardner, Jeffrey F ^a   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTEGRASE; PROTEIN CTN CTNDOT; PROTEIN CTN TN916; PROTEIN INTBST; RECOMBINASE; TETRACYCLINE; TYROSINE RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER; CTNBST GENE; DNA INTEGRATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYROSINE;

BACTEROIDES;

EID: 34548596765     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00668-07     Document Type: Article

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