Contact with host cells induces a DNA repair system in pathogenic Neisseriae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 853-861

  Morelle, Sandrine ^a   Carbonnelle, Etienne ^a   Matic, Ivan ^a   Nassif, Xavier ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; NALIDIXIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENS; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 13444301391     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04426.x     Document Type: Article

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