Molecular analysis of the Deinococcus radiodurans recA locus and identification of a mutation site in a DNA repair-deficient mutant, rec30

Mutation Research - DNA Repair

Volumn 435, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-243

  Narumi, Issay ^a   Satoh, Katsuya ^a,b   Kikuchi, Masahiro ^a   Funayama, Tomoo ^a   Kitayama, Shigeru ^c   Yanagisawa, Tadashi ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^a,d  

^a TAKASAKI ADVANCED RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementation; Deinococcus radiodurans; Gene expression; Mutation site; Operon structure; recA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMA RAYS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES;

EID: 0032786234     PISSN: 09218777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8777(99)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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