Polymerases Leave Fingerprints: Analysis of the Mutational Spectrum in Escherichia coli rpoB to Assess the Role of Polymerase IV in Spontaneous Mutation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2900-2905

  Wolff, Erika ^a   Kim, Mandy ^a   Hu, Kaibin ^a   Yang, Hanjing ^a   Miller, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; POLYMERASE IV; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1642267937     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.9.2900-2905.2004     Document Type: Article

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