Enhanced generation of A:T → T:A transversions in a recA730 lexA51(Def) mutant of Escherichia coli

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-66

  Watanabe Akanuma, Mie ^a   Woodgate, Roger ^b   Ohta, Toshihiro ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

A : T T : A transversion; mutA; Mutational specificity; mutC; MutD; umuDC

Indexed keywords

RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; POINT MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 0031023453     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(96)00189-3     Document Type: Article

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