Abortive recombination in Escherichia coli ruv mutants blocks chromosome partitioning

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 209-220

  Ishioka, Ken ^a   Fukuoh, Atsushi ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Nakata, Atsuo ^b   Shinagawa, Hideo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA HELICASES; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031878178     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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