Organization of the horizontally transferred pheBA operon and its adjacent genes in the genomes of eight indigenous Pseudomonas strains

Plasmid

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 230-236

  Peters, Maire ^a,b   Tomikas, Ave ^a   Nurk, Allan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

ARMphe; Horizontal gene transfer; Miniature insertional element; pheBA operon

Indexed keywords

DNA; PHENOL; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHENOL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 7044249520     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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