An Escherichia coli topB mutant increases deletion and frameshift mutations in the supF target gene

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-230

  Uematsu, Norio ^a   Eda, Sachiko ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deletion; Direct repeat; Frameshift; supF gene; Topoisomerase III (topB)

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING);

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030995625     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(97)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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