CTn12256, a chimeric Bacteroides conjugative transposon that consists of two independently active mobile elements

Plasmid

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-105

  Wang, Gui Rong ^a   Shoemaker, Nadja B ^a   Jeters, Robert T ^b   Salyers, Abigail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteroides; Compound transposon; Conjugative transposon; Mobile element; Regulatory interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 80052960966     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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