Escherichia coli HU protein suppresses DNA-gyrase-mediated illegitimate recombination and SOS induction

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 511-520

  Shanado, Yuka ^a   Kato, Jun Ichi ^a   Ikeda, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DIMERIZATION; DNA GYRASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 0031720087     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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