The mutT defect does not elevate chromosomal fragmentation in Escherichia coli because of the surprisingly low levels of MutM/MutY-recognized DNA modifications

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6976-6988

  Rotman, Ella ^a   Kuzminov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYGUANINE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA GLYCOSYLASE MUTY; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN MUTM; PROTEIN MUTT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; HYDROLYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PYROPHOSPHATASES; REC A RECOMBINASES; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); VITAMIN K 3;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34948904292     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00776-07     Document Type: Article

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