Stem loop sequences specific to transposable element IS605 are found linked to lipoprotein genes in Borrelia plasmids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Delihas, Nicholas ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BORRELIA; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BORRELIA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LIPOPROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 70949088473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007941     Document Type: Article

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