The length of a tetranucleotide repeat tract in Haemophilus influenzae determines the phase variation rate of a gene with homology to type III DNA methyltransferases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 211-222

  De Bolle, Xavier ^a,b   Bayliss, Christopher D ^a   Field, Dawn ^a   Van De Ven, Tamsin ^a   Saunders, Nigel J ^a   Hood, Derek W ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES;

EID: 0033972220     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01701.x     Document Type: Article

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