Mutational bias suggests that replication termination occurs near the dif site, not at Ter sites

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-56

  Hendrickson, Heather ^a   Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947231236     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05596.x     Document Type: Article

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