New mobile genetic elements in Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34, their possible roles and occurrence in other bacteria

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 96, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 205-226

  Van Houdt, Rob ^a   Monchy, Sébastien ^a,b   Leys, Natalie ^a   Mergeay, Max ^a  

^a SCKCEN   (Belgium)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Chemolithotrophy; Genomic islands; Heavy metals; Integrase; Synteny; Tn4371; Transposon; Tyrosine based site specific recombinase

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; ARSENIC; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHROMIC ACID; HEAVY METAL; PROTEIN CMGI 1; PROTEIN CMGI 3; PROTEIN CMGI 4; PROTEIN DAGI 1; PROTEIN DAGI 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA PETRII; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; CHEMOLITHOTROPH; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRIAVIDUS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DEGRADATION; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BORDETELLA; BURKHOLDERIA; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; CUPRIAVIDUS; DELFTIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; INTEGRASES; METALS, HEAVY; RECOMBINASES; SYNTENY; TYROSINE;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BORDETELLA PETRII; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 68449102953     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-009-9345-4     Document Type: Article

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