Recombination between a resident plasmid and the chromosome following irradiation of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans

Gene

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-229

  Daly, Michael J ^a   Minton, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

irradiation; DNA repair; Nonreciprocal recombination; recA; Reciprocal recombination; Single strand annealing

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COBALT; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GAMMA RAYS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROCOCCUS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RADIATION TOLERANCE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS;

EID: 0030932276     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00755-X     Document Type: Article

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