Cell division, guillotining of dimer chromosomes and SOS induction in resolution mutants (dif, xerC and xerD) of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 973-981

  Hendricks, E Cale ^a   Szerlong, Heather ^b   Hill, Thomas ^c   Kuempel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MUTANT; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIMERIZATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; INDOLES; INTEGRASES; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034029382     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01920.x     Document Type: Article

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