Complete nucleotide sequencing and analysis of the 65-kb highly conjugative Enterococcus faecium plasmid pMG1: Identification of the transfer-related region and the minimum region required for replication

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-195

  Tanimoto, Koichi ^a   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conjugative plasmid; DNA replication; Enterococcus faecium; Tra genes

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 53849136266     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01342.x     Document Type: Article

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