Mutagenesis and repair in Bacillus anthracis: The effect of mutators

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2331-2338

  Zeibell, Krystle ^a   Aguila, Sharon ^a   Shi, Vivian Yan ^a   Chan, Andrea ^a   Yang, Hanjing ^a   Miller, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AZACITIDINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; THIAMINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MUTM GENE; MUTS GENE; MUTY GENE; NDK GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AZACITIDINE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENE DELETION; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTAGENS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STR. STERNE; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947177524     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01656-06     Document Type: Article

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