Phenotypes of lexA mutations in Salmonella enterica: Evidence for a lethal lexA null phenotype due to the Fels-2 prophage

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 6235-6249

  Bunny, Kim ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Roth, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LEXA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE 186; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SULA;

EID: 0036843636     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.22.6235-6249.2002     Document Type: Article

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