Altered biological properties of cell membranes in Escherichia coli dnaA and seqA mutants

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 762-769

  Wegrzyn A ^a   Wrobel B ^b   Wegrzyn G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage ; dnaA function; Membrane permeability; seqA function

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PLAQUE ASSAY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033022723     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050019     Document Type: Article

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