Mutation rate is reduced by increased dosage of mutL gene in Escherichia coli K-12

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-269

  Galán, Juan Carlos ^a,d   Turrientes, María Carmen ^a   Baquero, María Rosario ^b   Rodríguez Alcayna, Manuel ^a   Martínez Amado, Jorge ^c   Martínez, José Luis ^c   Baquero, Fernando ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ALFONSO X EL SABIO   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimutation; Hypomutation; MMR system; MutL

Indexed keywords

DNA GLYCOSYLASE MUTY; PROTEIN MUTL; PROTEIN MUTS; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RIFAMPIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; LURIA;

EID: 34548761379     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00902.x     Document Type: Article

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