Enhanced monomer-monomer interactions can suppress the recombination deficiency of the recA142 allele

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Zaitsev, Eugene N ^a   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GLUTAMINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MONOMER; PHENYLALANINE; RECA PROTEIN; VALINE;

ACIDITY; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECA GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACIDS; ALLELES; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032822925     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01552.x     Document Type: Article

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