Replication fork stalling at natural impediments

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-35

  Mirkin, Ekaterina V ^a,c   Mirkin, Sergei M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; YEAST;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33947432388     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00030-06     Document Type: Review

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