Isolation of the topB gene encoding DNA topoisomerase III as a multicopy suppressor of topA null mutations in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-68

  Broccoli, Sonia ^a   Phoenix, Pauline ^a   Drolet, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE III; RIBONUCLEASE H; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA DEGRADATION; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033958423     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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