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Transposons Tn1696 and Tn21 and their integrons In4 and In2 have independent origins.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Apr 2001
Partridge S R, Brown H J, Stokes H W, Hall R M
Abstract excerpt
The first 13.6 kb of the mercury and multidrug resistance transposon Tn1696, which includes the class 1 integron In4, has been sequenced. In4 is 8.33 kb long and contains the 5'-conserved segment (5'-CS) and 2.24 kb of the 3'-conserved segment (3'-CS) flanking four integrated cassettes. The 3'-CS region is followed by one full copy and an adjacent partial copy of the insertion sequence IS6100 flanked, in inverse...
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