Secondary structures as predictors of mutation potential in the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2180-2189

  Burkala, Evan ^a   Reimers, Jac̈queline ^b   Schmidt, Karen H ^a   Davis, Nick ^a   Wei, Ping ^c   Wright, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b EndoBiologics Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVERTANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447530884     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/005470-0     Document Type: Article

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