Repair of hydrolytic DNA deamination damage in thermophilic bacteria: Cloning and characterization of a Vsr endonuclease homolog from Bacillus stearothermophilus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1913-1920

  Laging, Martin ^a,b   Linder, Eric ^a,c   Fritz, Hans Joachim ^a   Kramer, Wilfried ^a  

^a Praparative Molekularbiologie   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HETERODUPLEX; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037386395     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg276     Document Type: Review

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