Missense mutations in the 3' end of the Escherichia coli dnaG gene do not abolish primage activity but do confer the chromosome-segregation-defective (par) phenotype

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 585-594

  Versalovic, James ^a,b   Lupski, James R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; DNA replication; Partitioning; Segregation; SOS response

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL LYSATE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031042064     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-2-585     Document Type: Article

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