Alternative mechanisms for tn5 transposition.
Bacterial transposons are known to move to new genomic sites using either a replicative or a conservative mechanism. The behavior of transposon Tn5 is anomalous. In vitro studies indicate that it uses a conservative mechanism while in vivo results point to a replicative mechanism. To explain this an...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-08-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2723962?pdf=render |