A new in vitro strand transfer assay for monitoring bacterial class 1 integron recombinase IntI1 activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Dubois, Véronique ^a   Debreyer, Carole ^a   Litvak, Simon ^a   Quentin, Claudine ^a   Parissi, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTI1 INTEGRASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE; INTEGRON INTEGRASE INTI1; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; CATALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; INTEGRASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 44449163975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001315     Document Type: Article

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