Cloning, sequencing and expression of the uvrA gene from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB8

Gene

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-106

  Yamamoto, Noriko ^a   Kato, Ryuichi ^a   Kuramitsu, Seiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Excinuclease; Excision repair; Nucleotide binding; Overproduction; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0029974683     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00052-2     Document Type: Article

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