title: IS231A transposition: conservative versus replicative pathway.
abstract: This paper describes a novel approach, based on suicide transposition, to addressing the question of whether IS231A can give rise to cointegrate molecules through replicative transposition, even at a very low frequency. Comparative analysis was carried out with IS 10, another member of the same IS4 family. The results indicate that transposition of both elements is exclusively conservative.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Léonard
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mahillon
mesh_terms: D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000235:genetics*; D004261:DNA Replication; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D010957:Plasmids; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements