Complete nucleotide sequence of TOL plasmid pDK1 provides evidence for evolutionary history of IncP-7 catabolic plasmids

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4337-4347

  Yano, Hirokazu ^a,c   Miyakoshi, Masatoshi ^a   Ohshima, Kenshiro ^b   Tabata, Michiro ^a   Nagata, Yuji ^a   Hattori, Masahira ^b   Tsuda, Masataka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONJUGATION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PDK1 GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPLICON; TRANSPOSON; XYL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOLUENE;

EID: 77956548642     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00359-10     Document Type: Article

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