Increased thermosensitivity associated with topoisomerase I deletion and promoter mutations in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 141-146

  Qi, Haiyan ^a   Menzel, Rolf ^b   Tse Dinh, Yuk Ching ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Small Molecule Therapeutics   (United States)

Author keywords

32 Dependent promoter; Thermoresistance; Thermotolerance; topA; Topoisomerase I

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEAT TOLERANCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HEAT; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032811612     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00322-5     Document Type: Article

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