Multiple mechanisms contribute to lateral transfer of an organophosphate degradation (opd) island in sphingobium fuliginis ATCC 27551

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1541-1554

  Pandeeti, Emmanuel Vijay Paul ^a   Longkumer, Toshisangba ^a   Chakka, Deviprasanna ^a   Muthyala, Venkateswar Reddy ^a   Parthasarathy, Sunil ^a   Madugundu, Anil Kumar ^a   Ghanta, Sujana ^a   Medipally, Srikanth Reddy ^a   Pantula, Surat Chameli ^a   Yekkala, Harshita ^a   Siddavattam, Dayananda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

(PTE)Organophosphates; Catabolic; Conjugative; Elements (ICE); Genomic islands; Integrative; Phosphotriesterase; Transposons

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; INTEGRASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; SERINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLIC TRANSPOSONS; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRATIVE CONJUGATIVE ELEMENTS (ICE); METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHOTRIESTERASE (PTE); PLASMID; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

CATABOLIC TRANSPOSONS; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRATIVE CONJUGATIVE ELEMENTS (ICE); ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOTRIESTERASE (PTE);

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SERINE-TRNA LIGASE; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

EID: 84883179842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.004051     Document Type: Article

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