Interplay between DNA replication and recombination in prokaryotes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2005, Pages 43-67

  Kreuzer, Kenneth N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Genome instability; Replication fork restart; SOS response

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; REPLISOME;

CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 27144433837     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.59.030804.121255     Document Type: Review

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