Mutations in Haemophilus influenzae Mismatch Repair Genes Increase Mutation Rates of Dinucleotide Repeat Tracts but Not Dinucleotide Repeat-Driven Pilin Phase Variation Rates

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2928-2935

  Bayliss, Christopher D ^a   Sweetman, Wendy A ^a   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; PILIN; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAM GENE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HIFA GENE; HIFBCDE GENE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTH GENE; MUTL GENE; MUTS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; UVRD GENE;

5' FLANKING REGION; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA REPAIR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 2342499980     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.2928-2935.2004     Document Type: Article

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