recX, a new SOS gene that is co-transcribed with the recA gene in Escherichia coli

DNA Repair

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-284

  Pagès, Vincent ^a   Koffel Schwartz, Nicole ^a   Fuchs, Robert P P ^a  

^a ESBS   (France)

Author keywords

The recA recX SOS operon; Transcriptional readthrough at the recA terminator; Transcriptional translational fusion

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LETHALITY; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECA GENE; RECX GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS; TOXICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 0037349448     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1568-7864(02)00217-3     Document Type: Article

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