title: Transfer region of a bacteroides conjugative transposon, CTnDOT.
abstract: Bacteroides species harbor large self-transmissible integrated elements called conjugative transposons (CTns). In this paper, we report the first complete sequence analysis of the transfer region of a Bacteroides CTn. The transfer region contained 17 genes (designated orfA-orfQ). Only 2 of the genes shared sequence similarity with genes in the databases and only 1 of these genes was associated with self-transmissible elements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bonheyo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Shoemaker
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Salyers
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001439:Bacteroides / Q000235:genetics*; D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial