Mutations in the Escherichia coli surE gene increase isoaspartyl accumulation in a strain lacking the pcm repair methyltransferase but suppress stress-survival phenotypes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-25

  Visick, Jonathan E ^a   Ichikawa, Jeffrey K ^a   Clarke, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Isoaspartate; Protein methyltransferase; Protein repair; Stationary phase; Stress; Survival

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN D-ASPARTATE-L-ISOASPARTATE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 0032189541     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00362-0     Document Type: Article

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