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Tn2440, a Composite Tetracycline Resistance Transposon with Direct Repeated Copies of IS160 at its Flanks

NIES, B. A., MEYER, J. F., WIEDEMANN, B.

Journal of General Microbiology 1985; 131(9):2123 · https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-131-9-2123

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Abstract

Summary: The tetracycline resistance region of the multi-resistance plasmid pBP16 is flanked by direct repeats of the insertion sequence IS160. The tetracycline resistance region plus the flanking IS elements can transpose as a discrete unit. The composite transposon, designated Tn2440, has a size of 40 kb.