PcrA is an essential DNA helicase of Bacillus subtilis fulfilling functions both in repair and rolling-circle replication

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 261-273

  Petit, Marie Agnès ^a   Dervyn, Etienne ^a   Rose, Matthias ^b   Entian, Karl Dieter ^b   McGovern, Steven ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a   Bruand, Claude ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNAB HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031854048     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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