Multi-copy repression of Serratia marcescens nuclease expression by dinI

Current Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-48

  Berkmen, Mehmet ^a,b   Benedik, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIN1 PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIN1 PROTEIN, RAPHANUS SATIVUS; ENDONUCLEASE; NUC PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCA GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0036134513     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0072-y     Document Type: Article

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