The ArcA/ArcB two-component regulatory system of Escherichia coli is essential for Xer site-specific recombination at psi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 521-530

  Colloms, Sean D ^a   Alén, Claudia ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031979599     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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