IS Information

      

General features and properties of insertion sequence elements

                1. Organization
2. Control of neighboring gene expression
3. Control of transposition activity
4. Host factors
5. Reaction mechanisms		                 6. Transposition reactions and different types of gene rearrangement.
7. Transposition immunity
8. Target specificity
9. Population dynamics and horizontal transfer

The IS Families

  1. Major features of procaryotes IS families
  2. The DDE motif
  3. Family information

Nomenclature

  1. IS Nomenclature
  2. Reserved blocks of IS numbers previously attributed (Stanford University listing)
  3. List of IS names currently attributed

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Last modification : December 20 2001