Mercury(II)-resistance transposons Tn502 and Tn512, from Pseudomonas clinical strains, are structurally different members of the Tn5053 family

Plasmid

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-64

  Petrovski, Steve ^a   Blackmore, Dale W ^a   Jackson, Kerry L ^a   Stanisich, Vilma A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chimeric mer transposons; IntI transposons; Tn402 family; Tn5053 family; TniM

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; TRANSPOSON RESOLVASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 78650743624     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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