The sbcC and sbcD genes of Escherichia coli encode a nuclease involved in palindrome inviability and genetic recombination

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 285-291

  Connelly, John C ^a   Leach, David R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; EXONUCLEASE; SBCC PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SBCC PROTEIN, E COLI; SBCD PROTEIN, E COLI; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXONUCLEASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030089480     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.23024.x     Document Type: Article

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