Deletions of recBCD or recD influence genetic transformation differently and are lethal together with a recJ deletion in Acinetobacter baylyi

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2259-2270

  Kickstein, Eva ^a   Harms, Klaus ^a   Wackernagel, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXONUCLEASE; GENOMIC DNA; RECD PROTEIN; RECF PROTEIN; RECJ PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34247467271     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/005256-0     Document Type: Article

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