Control of genetic stability in Escherichia coli: The sbcB 3'-5' exonuclease suppresses illegitimate recombination promoted by the RecE 5'-3' exonuclease

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 101-109

  Yamaguchi, Hirotaka ^a   Hanada, Katsuhiro ^a,b   Asami, Yasuo ^a,b   Kato, Jun Ichi ^a   Ikeda, Hideo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034005003     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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