The relationship of two invertible segments in bacteriophage Mu and Salmonella typhimurium DNA
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- Vol. 184 (3) , 564-566
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00352543
Abstract
A Mu gin - mutant which lacks the function required for inversion of the G segment can be complemented by hybrid plasmids and phages carrying the invertible segment that controls flagellar phase variation in Salmonella typhimurium. This suggests that the same kind of site-specific recombination mechanism is responsible for these inversions. Based on the different features of the two invertible segments we propose a model for their evolutionary relationship.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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