Genetic analysis of second-site revertants of bacteriophage λ integrase mutants

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4030-4038

  Wu, Zhao ^a   Gumport, Richard I ^a,b   Gardner, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVERTANT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0030911599     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.12.4030-4038.1997     Document Type: Article

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