recB recJ mutants of Salmonella typhimurium are deficient in transductional recombination, DNA repair and plasmid maintenance

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 570-580

  Garzón, Andrés ^a,c   Beuzón, Carmen R ^a   Mahan, Michael J ^b   Casadesús, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplication segregation; Plasmid maintenance; RecBCD; RecJ; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0029980351     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02174445     Document Type: Article

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