Characterization of the porphyromonas gingivalis conjugative transposon CTnPg1: Determination of the integration site and the genes essential for conjugal transfer

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2022-2032

  Naito, Mariko ^a   Sato, Keiko ^a   Shoji, Mikio ^a   Yukitake, Hideharu ^a   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^b   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Nakayama, Koji ^a,c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA ORALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; REC A RECOMBINASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; NEGIBACTERIA; PORPHYROMONAS; PORPHYROMONAS ENDODONTALIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA BUCCAE; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PREVOTELLA ORALIS;

EID: 79959962123     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.047803-0     Document Type: Article

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