Norfloxacin-induced DNA cleavage occurs at the dif resolvase locus in Escherichia coli and is the result of interaction with topoisomerase IV

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1027-1036

  Hojgaard, Andrias ^a   Szerlong, Heather ^b   Tabor, Camille ^c   Kuempel, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLONE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; DNA CLEAVAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA GYRASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE IV; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NORFLOXACIN; RECOMBINASES; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0032884404     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01545.x     Document Type: Article

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