Mutation as a stress response and the regulation of evolvability

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 399-435

  Galhardo, Rodrigo S ^a   Hastings, P J ^a   Rosenberg, Susan M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

S; Adaptive mutation; Antibiotic resistance; Cancer; DNA repair; Error prone DNA polymerases; Evolution; Genome instability; Microbial pathogenesis; Mutation rates; Recombination; RpoS; SOS response; Stress responses

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RECA PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL STRESS; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TUMOR GROWTH; YEAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 35148834805     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10409230701648502     Document Type: Review

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