Characterization of components of the mismatch repair machinery in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-173

  Bell, Joanna S ^a   Harvey, Timothy I ^a   Sims, Anne Marie ^a   McCulloch, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 O METHYLGUANINE; CISPLATIN; GENOMIC DNA; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MISMATCH REPAIR; MLH1 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MSH2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPAIR; GENE DELETION; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0346334419     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03804.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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