Identification of a site-specific tyrosine recombinase that mediates promoter inversions of phase-variable mpl lipoprotein genes in Mycoplasma penetrans

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1241-1249

  Horino, Atsuko ^a,b   Kenri, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sasaki, Yuko ^a   Okamura, Noboru ^b   Sasaki, Tsuguo ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL DEVICES AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN MYPE2900; PROTEIN MYPE8180; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INVERTED REPEAT; MYCOPLASMA PENETRANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA PENETRANS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOPLASMA PENETRANS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 65649101247     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.025437-0     Document Type: Article

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