Mismatch repair protein MutL becomes limiting during stationary-phase mutation

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2426-2437

  Harris, Reuben S ^a,c   Feng, Gang ^b   Ross, Kimberly J ^a,c   Sidhu, Roger ^a   Thulin, Carl ^a   Longerich, Simonne ^a   Szigety, Susan K ^a   Winkler, Malcolm E ^b   Rosenberg, Susan M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mutation; Evolution; Genetic instability; Mismatch repair; Mutation; MutL; Stationary phase

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE MISPAIRING; CARCINOGENICITY; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030987686     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.18.2426     Document Type: Article

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