Protective Role for H-NS Protein in IS1 Transposition

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2091-2098

  Rouquette, Claudine ^a,b   Serre, Marie Claude ^a,c   Lane, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Centre Universitaire d'Orsay ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEASE LA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1642418867     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.7.2091-2098.2004     Document Type: Article

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