Roles of the recG gene product of Escherichia coli in recombination repair: Effects of the ΔrecG mutation on cell division and chromosome partition

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-99

  Ishioka, Ken ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Shinagawa, Hideo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030741602     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.72.91     Document Type: Article

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