The role of multiple SOS boxes upstream of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis lexA gene - Identification of a novel DNA-damage-inducible gene

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3609-3615

  Dullaghan, Edith M ^a   Brooks, Patricia C ^b   Davis, Elaine O ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

LexA; Mycobacteria; SOS box

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LEXA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SOS BOX;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0042850577     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-11-3609     Document Type: Review

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