Mutual suppression of mukB and seqA phenotypes might arise from their opposing influences on the Escherichia coli nucleoid structure

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 157-168

  Weitao, Tao ^a   Nordström, Kurt ^a   Dasgupta, Santanu ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOVOBIOCIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CENTRIFUGATION; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NOVOBIOCIN; PHENOTYPE; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032879895     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01589.x     Document Type: Article

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