2-Aminopurine allows interspecies recombination by a reversible inactivation of the Escherichia coli mismatch repair system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1459-1461

  Matic, Ivan ^a   Babic, Ana ^a,b   Radman, Miroslav ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

2-AMINOPURINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0037315189     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.4.1459-1461.2003     Document Type: Article

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