%0 Journal Article %A Nies, B. A. %A Meyer, J.F. %A Wiedemann, B. %T Tn2440, a Composite Tetracycline Resistance Transposon with Direct Repeated Copies of IS160 at its Flanks %D 1985 %J Microbiology, %V 131 %N 9 %P 2443-2447 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-131-9-2443 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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 4.0 kb. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-131-9-2443