FtsK controls metastable recombination provoked by an extra Ter site in the Escherichia coli chromosome terminus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 207-219

  Louarn, Jean Michel ^a   Quentin, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; FTSK PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947255108     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05631.x     Document Type: Article

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