Control of DNA topology during thermal stress in hyperthermophilic archaea: DNA topoisomerase levels, activities and induced thermotolerance during heat and cold shock in Sulfolobus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 766-777

  López García, Purificación ^a   Forterre, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFOLOBUS; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; COLD; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II, ARCHAEAL; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; HEAT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PUROMYCIN; SULFOLOBUS; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

EID: 0032815173     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01524.x     Document Type: Article

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