Self-transmissibility of the integrative and conjugative element ICEPm1 between clinical isolates requires a functional integrase, relaxase, and type IV secretion system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4104-4112

  Flannery, Erika L ^a,b   Antczak, Samantha M ^a   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; PHENYLALANINE; PHEV PROTEIN; RELAXASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTEGRATIVE AND CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT PROTEUS MIRABILIS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RNA, TRANSFER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 79961157653     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05119-11     Document Type: Article

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