Escherichia coli endonuclease VIII: Cloning, sequencing, and overexpression of the nei structural gene and characterization of nei and nei nth mutants

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3773-3782

  Jiang, Dongyan ^a,b   Hatahet, Zafer ^a   Blaisdell, Jeffrey O ^a   Melamede, Robert J ^a   Wallace, Susan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LYASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN;

APURINIC SITE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030974369     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.11.3773-3782.1997     Document Type: Article

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