A direct role for DNA polymerase III in adaptive reversion of a frameshift mutation in Escherichia coli

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 375, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-24

  Harris, Reuben S ^a   Bull, Harold J ^a   Rosenberg, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive mutation; Directed mutation; DNA polymerase III; Escherichia coli; Mismatch repair; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030988977     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(96)00244-8     Document Type: Article

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