Increased transcription rates correlate with increased reversion rates in leuB and argH Escherichia coli auxotrophs

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1457-1466

  Reimers, Jacqueline M ^a   Schmidt, Karen H ^a   Longacre, Angelika ^a,b   Reschke, Dennis K ^a   Wright, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRIXIS;

EID: 2942614909     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26954-0     Document Type: Article

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