Delineation of the recombination sites necessary for integration of pathogenicity islands II and III into the Escherichia coli 536 chromosome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 139-151

  Wilde, Caroline ^a,b,c   Mazel, Didier ^b   Hochhut, Bianca ^a   Middendorf, Barbara ^a   Le Roux, Frédérique ^b   Carniel, Elisabeth ^b   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a   Hacker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; INTEGRASE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 40549108932     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06145.x     Document Type: Article

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