Induction of the SOS regulon of Haemophilus influenzae does not affect phase variation rates at tetraneucleotide or dinucleotide repeats

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2751-2763

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

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; IMPA PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; MITOMYCIN C; RECA PROTEIN; RECN PROTEIN; RECX PROTEIN; RUVA PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; START CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WILD TYPE;

DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REGULON; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 23844495817     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27996-0     Document Type: Article

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