Assembly and transfer of tripartite integrative and conjugative genetic elements

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 12268-12273

  Haskett, Timothy L ^a   Terpolilli, Jason J ^a   Bekuma, Amanuel ^a   O'Hara, Graham W ^a   Sullivan, John T ^b   Wang, Penghao ^a   Ronson, Clive W ^b   Ramsay, Joshua P ^c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Integrase; Integrative and conjugative elements; Recombination; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; INTEGRASE;

AMPLICON; AUSTRALIAN; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMIC ISLAND; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYMBIOSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; FABACEAE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; INTEGRASES; MESORHIZOBIUM; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84992361830     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613358113     Document Type: Article

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