Nucleotide sequence and functional analysis of the tet (M)-carrying conjugative transposon Tn5251 of Streptococcus pneumoniae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 150-158

  Santoro, Francesco ^a   Oggioni, Marco R ^a   Pozzi, Gianni ^a   Iannelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conjugative transposon; ICE; MGE; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Tn5251

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE ORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TET M RESISTANCE PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 77953525977     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02002.x     Document Type: Article

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