Loss of both Holliday junction processing pathways is synthetically lethal in the presence of gonococcal pilin antigenic variation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-193

  Sechman, Eric V ^a,b   Kline, Kimberly A ^a,c   Seifert, H Steven ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HELICASE; PILIN; PROTEIN RUVABC; RECA PROTEIN; RECG HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONORRHEA; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; LETHALITY; MUTANT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PILE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RECO GENE; RECQ GENE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CRUCIFORM; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 33745208689     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05213.x     Document Type: Article

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