Molecular mechanisms of intramolecular recombination-dependent recircularization of linearized plasmid DNA in Escherichia coli: Requirements for the ruvA, ruvB, recG, recF and recR gene products

Gene

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 209-216

  McFarlane, Ramsay J ^a,b   Saunders, Jon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletion; Exonuclease III; Plasmid replication; Rec; Recombination; Short homology

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CIRCULAR DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE III; GENE PRODUCT; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030600481     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00303-4     Document Type: Article

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