Asymmetric crossing over in the spontaneous formation of large deletions in the tonB-trp region of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 523-529

  Uematsu, N ^a,b   Matsuoka, C ^a   Agemizu, Y ^a   Nagoshi, E ^a,c   Yamamoto, K ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric crossing; Deletion mutant; Escherichia coli; Illegitimate recombination; Repeated sequence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; OPERON; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033007157     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050996     Document Type: Article

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