Topoisomerase function during bacterial responses to environmental challenge

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn , Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Rui, Shan ^a   Tse Dinh, Yuk Ching ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental Challenge; Gyrase; Review; Stress; Supercoiling; topA; Topoisomerase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); GYRASE INHIBITOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THERMAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0242308518     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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