Site-specific accretion of an integrative conjugative element together with a related genomic island leads to cis mobilization and gene capture

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 912-925

  Bellanger, Xavier ^a,b,c   Morel, Catherine ^a,b   Gonot, Fabien ^a,b   Puymege, Aurore ^a,b   Decaris, Bernard ^a,b   Guédon, Gérard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CIS MOBILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE CAPTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTEGRATIVE CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST3 GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 80051558417     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07737.x     Document Type: Article

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