Molecular characterization of newly identified IS3, IS4 and IS30 insertion sequence-like elements in Mycoplasma bovis and their possible roles in genome plasticity

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 172-182

  Lysnyansky, Inna ^a   Calcutt, Michael J ^b   Ben Barak, Idan ^c   Ron, Yael ^c   Levisohn, Sharon ^a   Methé, Barbara A ^d   Yogev, David ^c,e  

^a KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Directly repeated sequences; Inverted repeat; IS; Mycoplasma bovis; Target specificity

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; RHO FACTOR; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INSERTION SEQUENCE 3; INSERTION SEQUENCE 30; INSERTION SEQUENCE 4; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AT-HOOK MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA BOVIS;

EID: 64549108517     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01562.x     Document Type: Article

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