Integrative mobile elements exploiting Xer recombination

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-30

  Das, Bhabatosh ^a,b   Martínez, Eriel ^a,b   Midonet, Caroline ^a,b   Barre, François Xavier ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin; Chromosome dimer resolution; Lysogenic phage; Tyrosine recombinases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIRCULAR DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN XERC; PROTEIN XERD; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTEGRATIVE MOBILE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRION; XER RECOMBINATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA TOXIN; INTEGRASES; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LYSOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84871677691     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.10.003     Document Type: Review

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