Transposon Tn916 is a 16.4-kb broad-host-range conjugative transposon originally detected
in the chromosome of Enterococcus faecalis DS16. Transposition of Tn916 and related …

Purified integrase protein (Int) of the conjugative transposon Tn 916 was shown, using
nuclease protection experiments, to bind specifically to a site within the origin of conjugal …

In recent work, we described the excision of a large genomic region from Enterococcus
faecium D344R in which the sequence from “joint” regions suggested that excision resulted …

The conjugative transposon Tn916 encodes a protein called INT (Tn916) which, based on
DNA sequence comparisons, is a member of the integrase family of site-specific …

Excision and formation of a covalently closed circular transposon molecule are required for
conjugative transposition of Tn 916 but are not the only factors that limit the frequency of …

We purified the Xis protein of the conjugative transposon Tn916 and showed by nuclease
protection experiments that Xis bound specifically to sites close to each end of Tn916. These …

Conjugative transposons are transposable elements that can cause gram-positive bacteria
to be conjugational donors to promote antibiotic resistance. The can conjugate by moving …

The conjugative transposon Tn916 inserts with widely different frequencies into a variety of
target sites with related nucleotide sequences. The binding of chimeric proteins, consisting …

Transposon Tn916 is a 16.4-kilobase, broad-host-range, conjugative transposon originally
identified on the chromosome of Enterococcus (Streptococcus) faecalis DS16. Its termini …

Conjugative transposons have been identified in several bacterial species, most notably the
Gram‐positive Enterococci and the Gram‐negative Bacteroides. In Bacteroides species …