Overinitiation of chromosome replication in the Escherichia coli dnaAcos mutant depends on activation of oriC function by the dam gene product

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 661-670

  Katayama, Tsutomu ^a   Akimitsu, Nobuyoshi ^a   Mizushima, Tohru ^a   Miki, Takeyoshi ^a   Sekimizu, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030868282     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5001872.x     Document Type: Article

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