Chromosomal fragmentation in dUTPase-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli and its recombinational repair

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1279-1295

  Kouzminova, Elena A ^a   Kuzminov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DEAMINASE; DEOXYCYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RECA PROTEIN; URACIL; URACIL DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CONTROL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYROPHOSPHATASES; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); URACIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1542616353     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03924.x     Document Type: Article

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