Site-specific recombination at dif by Haemophilus influenzae XerC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 915-926

  Neilson, Liam ^a   Blakely, Garry ^a   Sherratt, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME BINDING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHIDIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; INTEGRASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032958944     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01231.x     Document Type: Article

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