Temperature-dependent hypermutational phenotype in recA mutants of thermus thermophilus HB27

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4901-4907

  Castán, Pablo ^a   Casares, Lorena ^b   Barbé, Jordi ^b   Berenguer, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; MITOMYCIN C; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RECA GENE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REC A RECOMBINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0043062622     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.16.4901-4907.2003     Document Type: Article

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