Mobile genetic elements in Clostridium difficile and their role in genome function

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 361-367

  Mullany, Peter ^a   Allan, Elaine ^a   Roberts, Adam P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Conjugative transposon; Horizontal gene transfer; PaLoc; Tn5397; Tn916

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; TETRACYCLINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRON; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOGENICITY LOCUS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGK INTERVENING SEQUENCE ELEMENT; TRANSPOSON; ADAPTATION; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; METABOLISM;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES;

EID: 84928564816     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2014.12.005     Document Type: Article

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