ICEberg ID | 1 |
Name | BTF-37 |
ICEO ID | ICEO_0000719 |
Organism | Bacteroides fragilis LV23 |
Size (bp) | ~52 kb |
GC content [Genome] (%) | - |
Insertion site | - |
Function | - |
Species that ICE can be transferred to | Bacteroides spp.; Escherichia coli |
Nucleotide Sequence | AF412331; AF412330 (partial ICE sequence) |
Putative oriT region | - |
Putative relaxase | - |
(1) Hecht DW; Kos IM; Knopf SE; Vedantam G (2007). Characterization of BctA, a mating apparatus protein required for transfer of the Bacteroides fragilis conjugal element BTF-37. Res Microbiol. 158(7):600-7. [PubMed:17720457] |
(2) Vedantam G; Hecht DW (2002). Isolation and characterization of BTF-37: chromosomal DNA captured from Bacteroides fragilis that confers self-transferability and expresses a pilus-like structure in Bacteroides spp. and Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 184(3):728-38. [PubMed:11790742] |
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