Characteristics of Chi distribution on different bacterial genomes

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 579-587

  El Karoui, Meriem ^a   Biaudet, Véronique ^a   Schbath, Sophie ^a   Gruss, Alexandra ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Chi; Exonuclease; Genome analysis; Helicase; Oligomer; RecBCD; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033374593     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(99)00132-1     Document Type: Article

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