A five-nucleotide sequence protects DNA from exonucleolytic degradation by AddAB, the RecBCD analogue of Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1369-1377

  Chédin, Frédéric ^a,b   Noirot, Philippe ^a   Biaudet, Véronique ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031713244     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01018.x     Document Type: Article

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