RecN protein and transcription factor DksA combine to promote faithful recombinational repair of DNA double-strand breaks

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 97-110

  Meddows, Tom R ^a   Savory, Andrew P ^a   Grove, Jane I ^a   Moore, Timothy ^a   Lloyd, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; RECN PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DKSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 21244457233     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04677.x     Document Type: Article

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