Target immunity of the Tn3-family transposon Tn4430 requires specific interactions between the transposase and the terminal inverted repeats of the transposon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4233-4238

  Nicolas, Emilien ^a   Lambin, Michaël ^a   Hallet, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TN4430; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 77955970639     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00477-10     Document Type: Article

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