The effect of promoter strength, supercoiling and secondary structure on mutation rates in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1251-1261

  Schmidt, Karen H ^a   Reimers, Jacqueline M ^a   Wright, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RATE; GYRB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOPA GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745256707     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05166.x     Document Type: Article

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