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Characterization of a class II defective transposon carrying two haloacetate dehalogenase genes from Delftia acidovorans plasmid pUO1.

A model for the gamma delta resolvase synaptic complex.

Analysis of DNA looping interactions by type II restriction enzymes that require two copies of their recognition sites.

Comparison of Tn5397 from Clostridium difficile, Tn916 from Enterococcus faecalis and the CW459tet(M) element from Clostridium perfringens shows that they have similar conjugation regions but different insertion and excision modules.

The large resolvase TndX is required and sufficient for integration and excision of derivatives of the novel conjugative transposon Tn5397.

A transposon carrying the gene mphB for macrolide 2'-phosphotransferase II.

Transposition of Tn4451 and Tn4453 involves a circular intermediate that forms a promoter for the large resolvase, TnpX.

Functional organization and insertion specificity of IS607, a chimeric element of Helicobacter pylori.

Geometry of site alignment during int family recombination: antiparallel synapsis by the Flp recombinase.

Transposon targeting determined by resolvase.

Stability by multimer resolution of pJHCMW1 is due to the Tn1331 resolvase and not to the Escherichia coli Xer system.

Multiple roles for TnpI recombinase in regulation of Tn5401 transposition in Bacillus thuringiensis.

Tn5053 family transposons are res site hunters sensing plasmidal res sites occupied by cognate resolvases.

Structure analysis of a class II transposon encoding the mercury resistance of the Gram-positive Bacterium bacillus megaterium MB1, a strain isolated from minamata bay, Japan.

1H, 15N and 13C resonance assignments for the catalytic core of gamma delta resolvase.

Mutants of Tn3 resolvase which do not require accessory binding sites for recombination activity.

Architecture of the gamma delta resolvase synaptosome: oriented heterodimers identity interactions essential for synapsis and recombination.

Characterization of the Pac25I restriction-modification genes isolated from the endogenous pRA2 plasmid of Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867.

The transposable elements resident on the plasmids of Pseudomonas putida strain H, Tn5501 and Tn5502, are cryptic transposons of the Tn3 family.

The uvp1 gene on the R46 plasmid encodes a resolvase that catalyzes site-specific resolution involving the 5'-conserved segment of the adjacent integron In1.