Bacillus subtilis mutS mutL operon: Identification, nucleotide sequence and mutagenesis

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2021-2029

  Ginetti, Franceses ^a   Perego, Marta ^a,b,c   Albertini, Alessandra M ^a   Galizzi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; DNA repair; mut operon; Mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029822522     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-8-2021     Document Type: Article

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