Replacement of the lysine residue in the consensus ATP-binding sequence of the AddA subunit of AddAB drastically affects chromosomal recombination in transformation and transduction of Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 989-999

  Haijema, Bert Jan ^a   Noback, Michiel ^a   Hesseling, Anne ^a   Kooistra, Jan ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Meima, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029817559     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.601424.x     Document Type: Article

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