Analysis of the mutagenic properties of the UmuDC, MucAB and RumAB proteins, using a site-specific abasic lesion

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 493-498

  Lawrence, Christopher W ^a   Borden, Angela ^a   Woodgate, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; mucAB; rumAB; Specifically located abasic site; umuDC

Indexed keywords

MUTAGENIC AGENT; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030018123     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02172378     Document Type: Article

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