Lessons from 50 years of SOS DNA-damage-induced mutagenesis

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 587-594

  Schlacher, Katharina ^a   Goodman, Myron F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34250900335     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2198     Document Type: Review

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