Error-prone polymerase, DNA polymerase IV, is responsible for transient hypermutation during adaptive mutation in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3469-3472

  Tompkins, Joshua D ^a   Nelson, Jennifer L ^a   Hazel, Jill C ^a   Leugers, Stacy L ^a   Stumpf, Jeffrey D ^a   Foster, Patricia L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA POLYMERASE;

ADAPTATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA POLYMERASE BETA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LACTOSE; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037853272     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.11.3469-3472.2003     Document Type: Article

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