Effect of endogenous carotenoids and defective RpoS sigma factor on spontaneous mutation under starvation conditions in Escherichia coli: Evidence for the possible involvement of singlet oxygen

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 21-28

  Bridges, Bryn A ^a   Timms, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive mutation; Carotenoid; KatF; Reactive oxygen species; RpoS; Singlet oxygen; Starvation associated mutation; Stationary phase mutation

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CATALASE; PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SIGMA FACTOR; SINGLET OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; CATALASE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGMA FACTOR; SINGLET OXYGEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0032541096     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(98)00013-X     Document Type: Article

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