Counteraction by MutT protein of transcriptional errors caused by oxidative damage

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5335, 1997, Pages 128-130

  Taddei, F ^a,d   Hayakawa, H ^b   Bouton, M F ^a   Cirinesi, A M ^a   Matic, I ^a   Sekiguchi, M ^c   Radman, M ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CODON; DEOXYGUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; POINT MUTATION; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030879766     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5335.128     Document Type: Article

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