Investigation of mycobacterial recA function: Protein introns in the RecA of pathogenic mycobacteria do not affect competency for homologous recombination

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1203-1214

  Frischkorn, Klaus ^a   Sander, Peter ^a   Scholz, Matthias ^a,b   Teschner, Kerstin ^a   Prammananan, Therdsak ^a   Böttger, Erik C ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRON; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VECTORS; MITOMYCIN; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SPLICING; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031715468     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01003.x     Document Type: Article

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