Identification and disruption analysis of the recN gene in the extremely radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 435, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-161

  Funayama, Tomoo ^a   Narumi, Issay ^a   Kikuchi, Masahiro ^a   Kitayama, Shigeru ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^a,c  

^a TAKASAKI ADVANCED RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deinococcus radiodurans; DNA repair; Gene disruption; Radioresistant bacterium; RecN; SOS response

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DNA REPAIR; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; RADIATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 0032722892     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(99)00044-0     Document Type: Article

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