Cellular responses to postsegregational killing by restriction- modification genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2218-2229

  Handa, Naofumi ^a   Ichige, Asao ^a   Kusano, Kohji ^a,b   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; EXONUCLEASE; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, GENETIC; REC A RECOMBINASES; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034034023     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.8.2218-2229.2000     Document Type: Article

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