DNA adenine methylase mutants of Salmonella typhimurium and a novel dam- regulated locus

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-26

  Torreblanca, Joaquín ^a   Casadesús, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENETIC SCREENING; METHYLATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0029784922     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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