An operon that confers UV resistance by evoking the SOS mutagenic response in streptococcal conjugative transposon Tn5252

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2782-2788

  Munoz Najar, Ursula ^a   Vijayakumar, Moses N ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPOSON; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PNEUMOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032947994     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.9.2782-2788.1999     Document Type: Article

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