Deletion mutations caused by DNA strand slippage in Acinetobacter baylyi

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5239-5245

  Gore, Jeremy M ^a   Ran, F Ann ^a   Ornston, L Nicholas ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE REPETITIONS; PRECISION PLATING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURAL GENES;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DNA; PROTOCATECHUATE 3,4 DIOXYGENASE; QUININE SULFATE;

BACTERIUM; DNA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND SLIPPAGE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MUTATION RATE; MUTS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PCAG GENE; RECA GENE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STOP CODON; STRUCTURAL GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ACINETOBACTER; BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTOCATECHUATE-3,4-DIOXYGENASE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI;

EID: 33747368699     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00283-06     Document Type: Article

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