Hyperinitiation of DNA replication in Escherichia coli leads to replication fork collapse and inviability

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 349-358

  Simmons, Lyle A ^a   Breier, Adam M ^b   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^b   Kaguni, Jon M ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN DNAACOS; PROTEIN PRIA; PROTEIN RECB; REPLICATION INITIATOR PROTEIN DNAA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; KINETICS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SEQUENCE DELETION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0942290452     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03842.x     Document Type: Article

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