The relaxed requirements of the integron cleavage site allow predictable changes in integron target specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 559-569

  Frumerie, Clara ^a,b   Ducos Galand, Magaly ^a   Gopaul, Deshmukh N ^a   Mazel, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INTEGRASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ATTC; PROTEIN ATTI1; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; DNA; INTEGRON INTEGRASE INTI1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING SITE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTEGRON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; INTEGRASES; INTEGRONS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 77449086387     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp990     Document Type: Article

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