Mycobacterial recA is cotranscribed with a potential regulatory gene called recX

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-153

  Papavinasasundaram, K G ^a   Movahedzadeh, Farahnaz ^a   Keer, Jacquie T ^b,c   Stoker, Neil G ^b   Colston, M Joseph ^a   Davis, Elaine O ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

FELIS CATUS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030940974     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3441697.x     Document Type: Article

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