The RuvAB branch migration translocase and RecU Holliday junction resolvase are required for double-stranded DNA break repair in Bacillus subtilis

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 873-883

  Sanchez, Humberto ^a   Kidane, Dawit ^b,d   Reed, Patricia ^c   Curtis, Fiona A ^c   Cozar, M Castillo ^a   Graumann, Peter L ^b,d   Sharples, Gary J ^c   Alonso, Juan C ^a,e  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSOVER JUNCTION ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN RUVAB; RECU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CRUCIFORM; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 31644446744     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.045906     Document Type: Article

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